Fonds consists of copied photographs that date from circa (ca.) 1848-1922, predominantly 1901-1922, that depict various people, buildings, and views in Chipewyn, Sawridge, Slave Lake, Fort Vermilion, Athabasca Landing, and Fort McMurray, Alberta including a Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) officer, paddle steamers, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) boats, a government telegraph office, log cabins, street views, a sawmill, a cemetery, school teachers, and missionaries.

The fonds consists of four photographs and one photographic postcard. The photographs are of the Slave Lake Telegraph Office after being struck by lightening in 1931, two of Slave Lake during the 1934-1936 flood, one of the moving of the General Store from Slave River to Slave Lake; the photographic postcard is of Slave Lake in 1954.