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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 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 fifty black and white nitrate negatives taken by Paul Coze during his visits to Western Canada during 1928, 1930 and 1931. The photographs were a part of his ethnographic interests as an artist and document Métis, Cree and Nakoda Nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. About a quarter of the negatives document Alberta, while the majority was taken in Saskatchewan.

The fonds consists of records relating to the Sears family and includes a booklet entitled "My Price Ceiling Record" which was used as an address book and a diary likely by a member of the Sears family, images of a log barn on the Sears homestead, a farmer, a Bennett buggy, soldiers including Captain Bidwell of the 49th Battalion, possibly a colliery in the Rocky Mountain area, 1950s holiday shots from a trip to the Rocky Mountains including the Banff and Jasper administration buildings, Banff's Cave and Basin, automobiles, and a Brewster's bus, and a tintype of a baby.