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The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1937, of the funeral and burial of Lieutenant Governor Philip C.H. Primrose, taken by the William Kensit Studio.

The fonds consists of records related to the constitutional and ceremonial duties performed by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. The records include correspondence with the Premier, the Secretary of State of Canada, other lieutenant governors; documents related to swearing-in ceremonies for cabinet members; throne speeches; and documents related to the installation of Lieutenant Governors. The records also include correspondence, photographs, Christmas cards, invitations, minutes of meetings, Government House guest registers, and other records related to royal visits, tours, centennials and other commemorative events, levees at Government House, organizations of which the Lieutenant Governor served as patron, the presentation of coronation and other medals, liaison activities with honorary consuls, and the operations of the Alberta Order of Excellence program. The fonds also includes biographical sketches, journals, and personal correspondence of some Lieutenant Governors.

The fonds includes the records from the terms of all Lieutenant Governors of Alberta, namely G.H.V. Bulyea, R.G. Brett, William Egbert, William Walsh, P.C.H. Primrose, John C. Bowen, J.J. Bowlen, J. Percy Page, Grant MacEwan, Ralph Steinhauer, Frank Lynch-Staunton, Helen Hunley, and Gordon Towers.

With most of the records dating from Bowen's term onward, the pre-1937 records are largely represented by a correspondence record book (1906-1917), a file of correspondence regarding ministerial resignations (1909-1917), and the Government House guest registers (1914-1936).

Fonds consists of photographs and copies of photographs of P.C.H. Primrose during his career with the Northwest Mounted Police and as Lieutenant-Governor. It also consists of other material related to his post as Lieutenant-Governor including a bible and letters patent appointing him Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta.

The fonds also includes two photographs that hung on the walls of the Primrose family home. The first of these images is a black and white photograph depicting Charles Coursolles McCaul sitting in a study with a dog, signed by McCaul with the following note, “Merry Xmas, 1918.” McCaul worked as an attorney largely out of Edmonton. The second image is a black and white image of a First Nation man holding an antler-handled walking stick and wearing a Treaty medal.