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Consists of 723 sessions of photographic images (primarily negatives) taken by Frank Webber as a freelance photographer, as well as 2 notebooks listing photo sessions in chronological order, as well as cross-referenced by subject. Images include community and family events, industry and other commercial photography, as well as local scenery. These images are primarily of Medicine Hat and area.

The fonds consists of records related to the administration and activities of the Municipal District of Spirit River including holding council meetings, passing by-laws, administering the M.D.’s finances, and assessing property and collecting taxes. The fonds also includes associated records containing historical information about the M.D. and vital statistics relating to the M.D.’s residents. The material dates from 1917 to 2001 and includes records such as minutes, by-laws, financial statements, cash books, general ledgers, miscellaneous financial ledgers, assessment and tax rolls and forms, tax arrears lists, miscellaneous tax ledgers, newspaper clippings, photographs, burial registers, and birth, marriage and death registers.

The fonds is divided into five series based on record type and content: Executive records, Financial records, Tax records, Historical Information, and Provincial Vital Statistics Registers. Most of the records were originally housed in binders, ledgers, and bound books, many of which have been retained in their original form. In general, the archivist has arranged these ledgers and books according to type and chronology, maintaining original order in most cases.

The fonds consists of personal papers and photographs belonging to members of the Lunde family. The fonds includes a 1927 Norweigian passport issued to Marie Bernfine Jorgensen Lunde, Olaf Lunde's 1941 National War Services Regulations (Recruits), Olaf Lunde's 1952 car insurance policy, the County of Grande Prairie's 1960 Auditor's Financial Statement and Annual Report of the Agricultural Service Board addressed to Jorenson O. Lunde, the 1961 United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited List of Members and Nomination Paper Sub-District "G-31", and a Christmas card and note sent in 1979 from Olaf to J. Lunde at LaGlace.

The fonds also includes thirteen photographs believed to be of or have been sent to the Lunde family, although some of them may be Postman family photographs, since the two collections were mixed together at one point. The photographs include school, family, and wedding portraits, a platoon photograph, and photographs of family members and houses.

The records have been separated from the Postman family records (see fonds 515) and arranged in chronological order by the Archivist.

The sous-fonds consists of Accounting records and Assessment/Taxation records. Under Accounting there are financial statements, Department of Municipal Affairs statistics, and a series of over-sized ledgers: Town Cash Book Receipts, Town Cash Book Expenditures, Journal Entries and Debenture Register. The Assessment/Taxation records include assessment cards, assessment and tax rolls, tax collection ledgers and documents for tax recovery of unpaid taxes.

The sous-fonds consists of census records, insurance records, municipal agreements such as expropriations and utility rates, files on special promotional events which have occurred in the City of Grande Prairie, and the contents of a 1962 time capsule from the cornerstone of City Hall. Two maps outline the fire fighting agreement between the City and County of Grande Prairie. Photographs are of special events in the city, such as prime ministerial and royal visits and the Canada Winter Games.

The sous-fonds consists of the Minutes and By-laws of the Village, Town and City of Grande Prairie as well as photographs of mayors and aldermen from 1957 to 1983.

The fonds consists of records reflecting some of the activities of the Town of Grande Prairie from 1917 to 1951. The majority of these records are connected most specifically with the office of the Secretary-Treasurer and relate to town governance and finances.

The fonds is arranged in four series: Provincial legislation, Financial records, Tax records, and Correspondence files.

The fonds consists of records relating to the operation of the Kleskun Hill Local No. 370 of the United Farmers of Alberta. The records include two Membership Roll, Cash Book, and Minute Books, loose receipts, loose correspondence, and related literature.

The fonds is divided into two series: Administrative records and Correspondence.

The fonds consists of records from Clayton Calberry's work as an enumerator for the polling division #53 for the federal election of 1945, as a poundkeeper for the area, 1944-1965, and as a school trustee for the East Smoky School Division (1938-1954) including minutes and finances and a register from the Ravenna School 1940-41.

The fonds consists of Elmer Borstad's personal papers, records as alderman and mayor including pages from a large scrapbook, records and photographs of involvement with the Chamber of Commerce and Northern Alberta Development Council, a scrapbook of records (1978-79) related to his nomination as candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party and subsequent election as MLA for Grande Prairie, a scrapbook of records as chairman of the QEII Foundation and head of the MRI capital campaign (1997-1999), and records of his chairmanship on the Capital Campaign Committee for building additional student residences at GPRC. There is also a mylared copy of a full-page 1959 advertisement "marking 12 years of service to Grande Prairie & District" , a booklet "The Canol Adventure" written by Mr. Borstad, and a photograph album detailing Elmer's involvement with RCSCC Micmac Squadron Sea Cadets (1955-1966), including photographs of the first Wrenette Corps in Alberta established in Grande Prairie in 1957.