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The fonds consists of photographs and negatives taken in or near Coal Branch, Jasper, Banff, Luscar, Mountain Park, Lovett, and Yellowhead County with some photos taken in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia.

The photos have a wide breadth of subject material including mining (including mine fires, rescue horses, miners, specific mines, equipment, and infrastructure), sports (including baseball, curling, tennis, soccer, and track), leisure activities (including music, parties, and performances), women, outdoor activities (including picnics, hunting, camping, ice skating, horseback riding, and snow-shoeing), landscapes, and people in a wide age range.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mary Rundle during her service as Private Secretary to Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow for the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry in Alberta dating from 1935.

The scrapbook contains diary entries, postcards, and photographs of Alberta including photographs of the Tofield Coal Mine, Rabbit Hill, MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton, Red Deer Ferry, Henderson’s Mine, Drumheller, Lethbridge, Blairmore, Crow’s Nest Mountain and Lake, Old Man River, Forest Reserve near Thunder Creek, Banff, Kicking Horse Pass, Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake, Kicking Horse Canyon, Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Caste Mountain (Saskatchewan), Luscar, Cadomin, Crazeau, Mountain Park, Leyard Junction, Luscar, Edson, Coalspar, the Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, as well as photographs of Sir Montague-Barlow, Lady Montague-Barlow, and coal miners in 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.