The fonds consists of 16 black and white negatives featuring members of the MacFarland and Wood families of Calgary, Alberta dating from ca. 1909. The fonds also includes six kodachrome 35 mm slides taken by William Betts in 1965 capturing Reg Kelly during an Honorary Chief Ceremony at the Saddle Lake Cree Nation Reserve with Chief Ralph Steinhauer presiding. The slides also feature Reg’s wife, Mary White Jacket, and their son, Harvey.
The fonds consists of photographs taken in Banff at the Highland Games in 1927 including images featuring Bison, Kainai 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 a booklet belonging to Samuel Henry Middleton entitled, “The Gospel According to St. Mathew”, translated into Siksika by John William Time and published by the British Foreign Bible Society in 1890.
Fonds consists of letter written by Dr. Valentine E. Barrow regarding his life and work, 1933; 9 albumen photographs of Indigenous peoples in northern Alberta and Northwest Territories, mainly Hay River area, 1906; Fort McMurray Royal Canadian Mounted Police Patrol Report, 1914.
The fonds consists of a postcard of Nakoda people with a tipi and views of the mountains near Banff, Alberta, and photographs from Nordegg, Alberta of trains, the train station, buildings, stores, street scenes, a dogsled, religious services, Indigenous peoples and ceremonies, Harold Kidd and Harold’s brother, Stuart Kidd.
The fonds consists of Imperial Oil related images, dating from the early part of the 20th century, and includes images of the Dingman oil site near Turner Valley, oil seepages, work crews, a train car, a cable-car, members of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, George MacAdams and George Sheppard, who both worked for the Brazeau Forest Reserve, pack horses, log cabins, Indigenous dwellings, the Brazeau train station, a coal mine and members on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Reserve at Morley, Alberta.