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The fonds consists of photographs taken in Banff at the Highland Games in 1927 including images featuring Bison, Kainai [Kainai First Nation] dwellings, Kainai drummers, a ring and arrow game behind the Banff Springs Hotel, a parade of Kainai warriors, and a hand guessing game. The fonds also includes a photograph of Mr. R.N. Wilson, an Indian agent in the early part of the 20th century in Alberta, and a photograph of Mrs. R.N. Wilson.

The fonds consists of photographs and photographic and mechanically produced postcards which depict various people and views in Banff, Hardisty, Bow River, Edmonton, and Sylvan Lake, Alberta including rivers, a locomotive, buffalo, agricultural machinery, a First Nations chief, a church and church booth, log cabins, floods, bridges, street views, carriages, and hotels. Fonds also includes an image of Emmanuel College in Saskatchewan, and the R.M. Empress of Ireland.

The collection consists of photographs of a Siksika medicine lodge, ranching, the laying of the cornerstone of the Alberta Legislature, the hospital of Grande Prairie, bison in Banff National Park, Vegreville school, and other sites in Alberta.

The three lantern slides and four stereoviews are as follows: “A Treacherous Crevasse in Victoria Glacier;” Centre Street Bridge – Calgary (colour); “Midnight Sun [river boat] – G. Rubie – 1896;” “Mt. Edith Cavell from Jasper Park Lodge…;”Beautiful Crystal Garden and Cascade Mountain Range, Banff, Alberta, Canada;” “One of the Three Sisters Overlooking the Snow River Valley, Banff, Alberta, Canada; ”Ancient Monarch of the Herd, Buffalo at Banff, Alberta, Canada.”

Fonds consists of photographs and photographic postcards depicting various people, buildings, bridges and views in Alberta and British Columbia, including many scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and includes Columbia River and highway, Tooth Rock, Connaught Tunnel, Yoho Valley, Kicking Horse Canyon, Morraine Lake, Lake Louise, Cascade Mountain, Castle Mountain, Mount (Mt.) Rundle, Mt. Temple, Bow Valley, and Douglas Street in Victoria, British Columbia, and Banff Hot Springs Hotel. Fonds also includes images of canoes, automobiles, buffalo, mountain goats, log cabins, trains, and William S. Gavitt with a moose.