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The fonds consists of images taken by Archibald Dunlap of Edmonton, Alberta, and various other locations across Alberta, including the Rockies, Seba Beach, Edson, and Lacombe.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides Armin Hecht took while on assignment from the Edmonton Journal dating from 1950’s to the 1960’s. Locations include: Alberta, Yukon, Europe, Eastern Canada, and Japan. The fonds also includes some publications of Armin Hecht’s reporting dating from 1959-1987.

Fonds consists of the business records of Bamber Studio, and records pertaining to the Bamber family and includes correspondence, customer accounts, financial records, advertising materials, technical and equipment manuals, and photocopied newspaper clippings. Also includes negatives, photographs, photographic collages, a lantern slide and glass plate negatives that depict various people, places and views in Alberta. The photographs are divided into two main series, the working series (Ba), consisting of images of people at work and the Leduc area; and the portrait series (BaP). There are 787 negatives in the working series and 9473 negatives in the portrait series. Bamber divided his portraits into series one and series two.

Fonds consists of portraits of members of the Marler, Dawson, Buckholtz, Tamrykt, Adams, Motkovitch, Bugis, MacDonald, Pyron, Woods, Hiller, Brust, Lund, Matheson, Kadatz, Bender, Tabel, Fielbach, and Magnon families.

The fonds consists of four photofinishing envelopes from the Byron-May Co. dating from [1915].

The fonds consists of the bulk of the Cunningham Photographers photographic holdings and include wedding portraiture, commercial photographs, scenic photographs, 1959 Royal Tour photographs, personal photographs, and event photographs.

The wedding and family portraiture, including formal portraits and candid images, represent the largest portion of the images. The subjects and dates are all identified and span several decades. Commercial photographs for such businesses and Hudson’s Bay Company and many Alberta-based companies including manufacturers, retailers, energy companies, and others are also present and include images intended for advertising, personnel, sites, and interiors. Many events such as parades, banquets, and festivals are also represented in the fonds.

Scenic photographs of locations around Alberta such as Banff and Jasper National Parks are sampled, as are personal and family photographs.

The textual records consist of indexes to the photographs and negatives, arranged by portraits, weddings, commercial, and events.

The fonds consists of material created or collected by both Cy and Mary Hampson and records from Cymar Films.

The fonds consists of by-laws, Executive and Annual General Meetings minutes, newspaper clippings, financial records, correspondence and administrative records of the Edmonton Cine Club, of the Edmonton Movie and Photo Club and of the Edmonton Photo Club dating from 1938- 2014. The fonds also includes "The Floodlight", a newsletter the Edmonton Cine Club started, and that the Edmonton Movie and Photo Club and the Edmonton Photo Club maintained.

Fonds consists of the family records of Frank and Ethel Norbury, and their two children Hubert and Esmé. The records include correspondence, photographs, service records, school records, newspaper clippings, compositions, and artwork. The fonds will be arranged into the following four series: Frank H. Norbury series, Flores “Ethel” Norbury series, Hubert and Marjorie Norbury series, and Helmer and Esme Hanna series.

The fonds consists of 5486 negatives Frank Oliver Jr. shot while working on contract for the Edmonton Journal dating from 1953 to 1955. The negatives include images of news items such as accidents, fires, robberies, cornerstone ceremonies, and construction; images of sport items such as boxing, wrestling, basketball, baseball, swimming, football, hockey, bowling, stock car racing, curling, tennis and badminton; and images of social events such as balls, banquets, luncheons, conventions, teas, retirements, anniversaries, winter carnivals, reunions, fashion shows, alumni gatherings, contest winners, presentations, groups and associations. The fonds also includes invoices, business cards, envelopes, desk calendars, and photo mats of the Frank Oliver Studio dating from 1953 to 1955 as well as some amateur photographic work by Frank Oliver dating from the 1950's.

The fonds consists of negative file log books for Garneau Studio and Housez Studio; correspondence, sample order forms and receipts for Garneau Studio; and images of commercial, industrial, wedding and portrait photography for Garneau Studio, Parker Studio, Foto Craft and Housez Studio.

The fonds consists of records documenting the operation of the Gateway Camera club including by-laws and constitution, minutes, membership lists, financial statements, and correspondence dating from 1956 to 1986.

The fonds consists of records that document Irene Powell’s life and work, as well as her interests and time in Alberta.

The fonds includes photograph albums and loose photos that Irene Powell took as part of her work life and as part of her hobby. These images include pictures of the staff at the Camsell hospital, and images depict K-Days celebrations, Christmas decorating and events, Halloween costumes, staff and patient photos (largely children), hospital picnics, and other hospital events. Many personal photos document the Alberta landscape, Powell’s life and events in the province. These images include barns and livestock, flora and fauna, as well as well known locales such as West Edmonton Mall, the Ukrainian Village, Heritage Days and numerous parades and local fairs.

The fonds also includes textual records such as Camsell Hospital newsletters, with seven editions of the “Camsell Arrow” as well as various graduation booklets and hospital newsletters and annual reports from the Royal Alexandra when Powell was there.

The collection consists material acquired or purchased by J. Ernest Nix and includes the following C.W. Mathers postcards: “The beginning of Better Things” (sod house with bison bones), “A Typical Indian Camp near Edmonton, Alberta,” “Saskatchewan River at Edmonton,” Queen’s Avenue Public School,” “Early Edmonton Days,” “Old Fort Edmonton” and two different postcards of “Some of Edmonton’s Residences.” The collection also includes a photograph of the Oliphant-Munson Collieries Ltd. in Edson, Alberta taken between 1916 and 1930 by an unidentified photographer.

The fonds reflects Janette's interest in photography and consists of 15 photographs featuring buildings on Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta taken by Janette Leipnitz in 1998.

The collection consists of studio portraits of an unidentified man, dressed as a juggler and as a sailor, taken by Edmonton photographer S.W. (Sydney William) Saunderson.

The fonds includes purchase receipts from the William Kensit Studio and the Kensit Studio, but consists predominantly of images on a wide variety of subjects including royal visits, sports and sports teams (skating, hockey, basketball, curling, football, boxing, swimming), the Edmonton Commercial Grads, oil wells, stores and businesses (interiors and exteriors), banks (interiors and exteriors), schools, churches, houses, other buildings, bridges, construction sites, fires, refineries, airplanes, playgrounds, picnics, parades, fashion, convocations, school groups, formal dinner, business functions, formal dances, numerous portraits and various Edmonton other views.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides depicting sites throughout Alberta, including the Provincial Legislature, Elk Island National Park, Banff, Edmonton, and Calgary. Prints of Sheraton's art photography are also included, as are images of drag racing in the 1960s and 1970s.

The fonds consists of records documenting the life of the C.W. Mathers Family including photographs, correspondence, a diary, and genealogical research of the Mathers family dating from the 1900s to the 1980s. The fonds also includes records, dating from the 1880s to the 1940s, documenting C.W. Mathers' photographic career including photographs featuring the Klondike Gold rush, First Nations Peoples, views of fishery industry in British Columbia; a sketchbook; oil paintings; a published photographic souvenir booklet, The Far North; and selections of photographs from the published booklet Picturesque Edmonton.

The fonds consists of agreements, certificates of incorporation, share certificates, annual reports, and minutes of McDermid Studios dating from 1914 - 1976. The fonds also contains 36 photographs featuring Edmonton scenes dating from 1913 - 1960 produced by McDermid Studios and a pictorial calendar produced by McDermid Studios in 1967.

The fonds consists of travel photography and corresponding information compiled by Russell to accompany slide shows as well as extensive coverage of various sites and events across Alberta. These images include Medicine Hat, Albertan industry (specifically the Medicine Hat clay industry), churches of various denominations (including the Al Rashid Mosque prior to its move to Fort Edmonton), Edmonton, Calgary, the Calgary and Medicine Hat Stampedes, sports and recreation, and national/provincial parks. International travel photography is also included, such as images from pre-Revolution Cuba and Cold War-era Berlin. The slides also show PRPA field trips, conventions, and photographic lessons as well as title slides created by Russell for use in her slide shows.

The collection consists of the assignments, specifically photographs and negatives, created by first and second year students in the Photographic Technology Program at NAIT; assignment topics included: “Documenting Edmonton” (choice of one of four: Chinatown, Little Italy, 118th Avenue between 82nd and 97th Streets, or Fort Road between the Yellowhead Trail and the Londonderry Inn) (1989); “Documenting Edmonton” (choice of one of four: Whyte Avenue from 103rd to 109th Streets, Calder area - 127 Avenue from 97th to 127th Streets, 118th Avenue and Kingsway Avenue (Kingsway Garden Mall) west to 124th Street, or 124th Street from Jasper Avenue to 111th Avenue) (1993); “Documenting Edmonton” (Jasper Avenue) (1996); “Documenting Edmonton” (Social Strata) (1997); “Women at Work in Edmonton in the 1990s” (1998); “Car Culture” (exhibited at Café La Gare) (1999); “The Human Imprint” (showing man’s affect on the environment) (2000); “Like Linda [McCartney]: Performers through the lens of NAIT photography students” (exhibited as part of the Sixties exhibit at the Provincial Museum of Alberta) (2001); and “Poverty in the Land of Plenty” (2002).

The fonds consists of the records of Ranson Photographers Limited and includes correspondence, receipts, promotional material, model release forms, price schedules, film proposals, foreign money, Ranson Photographers decals, a film catalogue, a cashbook, awards and certificates, photographs, negatives, slides, and numerous films elements (soundtracks, work prints, outtakes, raw footage, video, release prints) for documentary films produced by Ranson Photographers on a variety of subjects including tourism, the oil industry, and the airline industry, along with some miscellaneous footage.

The fonds consists of images, dating 1949 to 1962, featuring various locations in Alberta including Banff, Beaver Lodge, Brazeau, Calgary, Caroline, Champion, Crowsnest Pass, Cypress Hills, Dorothy, Drumheller, Duvernay, East Coulee, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Frank, Frog Lake, Grisham, High Prairie, High River, Kananaskis, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Longiven, Manning, Manville, Manyberries, Medicine Hat, Midland, Nordegg, Orion, the Red Deer River, Ricinus, Rocky Mountain House, Rosebud, Rosedale, Sundre, Vulcan, Wabamun, Whiskey Gap, and the Yellowhead Pass. The photographs include street scenes, schools, fire halls, churches and mosques, stores, restaurants, diners and bakeries, beer parlours, post offices, greenhouses, telephone lines, workers and operators, grain elevators, ferries, swimming pools, airports, Jaycopters, airplanes and cargo, mills and mines (flour, steel, coal, nickel), plants, camps, pipeline construction, saddleries, apiaries, bridges, dams, roads, signs, hoodoos, mountains, ice fields, cattle, horses and sheep, stampedes and parades, cattle branding and dehorning, lariat making, artists and sculptors, and laundry and ironing.

The fonds also includes images of rancher and juniper root carver Wilf Hodgson (Wilfred Garstang-Hodgson), of Dorothy, Alberta.

The fonds consists of images taken by Jim Tustian, primarily in Edmonton, and includes images of a variety of subjects including Klondike Days, Northlands Park, Northlands Coliseum, Speedway Park and events, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton views and buildings, Premier Ernest C. Manning's tour to Lac La Biche, conventions, visits of Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau to Edmonton, Consolidated Concrete, Tommy Banks, models, Edmonton's 75th Birthday celebrations, the Jazz City Festival, the Alberta Ballet Company, weddings, Muk-Luk Mardi Gras, businesses, Electrical Generating Plant at Lake Wabamun, Molson's Brewery, Western Canada Masters Bowling Tournament, Lieutenant Governor Grant MacEwan's retirement, musicians, and Jim Tustian.

The fonds consists of records from Tyrrell Photo Studio and includes correspondence, accounts, index cards, receipts, magazines and other published material about photography, and photographs, negatives and glass negatives, mainly portraits, of men, women, young children and babies, and weddings.

The fonds consists of the business records of Wells Studios, including purchase orders and correspondence, and images consisting primarily of commercial and publicity shots, and include buildings, such as churches, banks, and stores (exteriors and interiors), houses (exteriors and interiors), parades, theatre productions, workplaces, sports, industrial plants, construction sites, various group photographs, conferences, and trade shows.

The fonds consists of images by William McLennan depicting various sites around Alberta, including Edmonton, Drumheller, Calgary, Jasper, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, various provincial parks, several heritage sites, churches, and more. The slides also contain images of community events such as Edmonton’s Heritage Fest, chuckwagon races, etc.

There are also slides of McLennan family members and events. Furthermore, there is a relatively comprehensive collection of close-up images of various species of butterflies and other insects from across Alberta. Lastly, there are title card slides that McLennan would have used to create slide shows from his work.