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The fonds consists of 6 photographs featuring the miners and the Frank Mine. The fonds also includes a photograph of the Briot family home in Frank, Alberta.

The fonds consists of a photograph capturing a celebration at Bellevue Alberta, two photographs featuring a woman at the Frank Slide, and a postcard featuring the Rocky Mountain Sanatorium. The photographs date from circa 1903.

The fonds consists of two photographs of the Main Street of Frank, Alberta preceding and following the Frank Slide in 1903

The fonds consists of “Recollections of the Frank Slide” by Gordon H. Crayford, who presents evidence that the slide was the result of a gas explosion, and copied photographs which include: an image of Frank before the slide in 1903; images of the Frank mine entrance, originally taken between 1903 and 1905; images from the top of Turtle Mountain, including images of the rock pillar known as Turtle Man which has since fallen, originally taken in 1951 by Sidney Crayford; and images of the Frank mine entrance and ventilating fan taken in 1992 by Gordon Crayford.

Fonds consist of personal reminiscences written by Inez B. Hosie, a typed transcript of personal reminiscence written by her mother Adelaide Connors about the Frank slide, and photographs depicting the McLaren Mill Company in Blairmore, a school located west of Rimbey, and Villa Gearning, who worked at McLaren Mill Company.

Fonds consists of photographs dating 1911-1923 depicting various floods and landslides in Blairmore and Frank, Alberta.

The fonds consists of images of Turtle Mountain, one taken circa (ca.) 1890, before the Frank Slide, and one taken in the 1960s by James Cousins after the Slide.

The fonds consists of images of the Bansemer family, including the Bansemer children (Annie Bell, Hulda, Harold, Bert and Kate), Carl Bansemer’s mother and Carl Bansemer.

The fonds consists of five reels of 16mm colour silent film shot by Katherine Baier featuring scenes of cars, weddings horseback riding, Chateau Lake Louise, Bonnyville School dating from 1954; scenes of the Columbia Ice Fields, Banff, Frank Slide, and Turtle Mountain dating from ca. 1957; equestrian scenes in Bawlf, Alberta dating from ca. 1955; scenes of Radium, BC, the Banff town site, a restored Model-T Ford dating from ca. 1959; scenes of harvesting, the Banff Highway, waterfalls, the Banff town site, animals, campsite, cars, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and a Viking Parade dating from ca. 1949 to 1953.

The fonds consists of 15 photographs of the town of Frank, Alberta and the general area, including views of Frank, stores, a zinc refinery, a lime kiln, views of the Frank slide, views of the Crow’s Nest Pass, and W.A. Beebe (real estate insurance broker).

The fonds includes photographs and textual material related to those members of the Leitch family who survived the Frank Slide disaster on April 29, 1903, sisters: Marion, Jessie and Rosemary. The photographs consist of family portraitures while the majority of the textual materials are published articles on the Frank Slide disaster and the surviving members of the Leitch family.

The fonds consists of a VHS copy of a documentary entitled the Runaway Mountain produced by Pioneer Productions in 1995. The documentary discusses the 1903 mountain slide in Frank, Alberta.

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.

Fonds consists of lantern slides and lecture notes about the Frank and Hillcrest mine disasters and of Paul Kane prints, as well as newspaper clippings and a copy of a taped interview with C.B. Aikens regarding the Crowsnest Pass.

The photographs depict the area around and in Frank following the Frank Slide, including a partially cleared road and an automobile driving along the road. Two of the photographs are labeled on the reverse with ‘Town of Frank buried beneath a rock slide.” These photographs were either taken or purchased by William Peiffer or his family during the family's move from Idaho in 1926.

The photographic postcard depicts William Peiffer siting in the front seat of a partial car with a painting backdrop behind him depicting part of Bar X Ranch (which is in southern Alberta, close to the border with Montana). The reverse is labeled with “William Edward Peiffer after he crossed the line coming to Canada.” This souvenir photograph was created during travels with his family.