The fonds consists of two record-types: records created by Frame 30 in the course of the production of The Greatest Auto Race on Earth and original material collected by Frame 30 to be used for research and/or on-screen appearances. ; The former group is arranged in binders by topic and is essentially a compendium of information about race participants and details culled from various resources. The binders also contain correspondence, scripts, transcripts of interviews, and production notes. ; The latter grouping of records consists of contemporaneous newspapers and advertisements that covered or referenced the 1908 race. The newspapers include publications from London, Rochester, Des Moines, and Paris. There are also monographs, bound volumes, and pamphlets about the 1908 race and related topics. ; The fonds also consists of photographs that document the 1908 race from its start in New York to its finish in Paris, with the entire westward-route across the United States, Asia, Russia, and Europe also shown.
The fonds consists of films and videos that were created by Victor von Berg and document family activities as well as events and activities related to the Edmonton Soaring Club and the Phoenix Club. Footage includes glider and small-engine plane flights around Alberta and British Columbia, water skiing, the construction of facilities at Lake Isle, church services at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and family excursions to Jasper, California, Mexico, and around Alberta. There is also a video of Victor narrating his life story. ; The remainder of the material was created by Reinhard von Berg and focuses on his family in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The fonds consists of photographs that include group portraits of the Edmonton Gradettes (including Sybil and Coach John Percy Page), a snapshot of Charles Lindbergh in an unidentified location, images of rail accidents and equipment from Sybil's father, family photos, locations around Edmonton and Alberta, images from the Central Alberta Sanatorium, First Nations images, farm fields and equipment, and snapshots of Sybil from the 1910s to the 1990s. ; The textual material includes funeral programs, an autograph book filled by Sybil's friends from the Central Alberta Sanatorium, and a Christmas card from the early 20th century.
The fonds consists of photographs that depict images from downtown Calgary and locations in Banff, including Lake Lousie, Mount Eisenhower, and Johnston Canyon. The images of downtown Calgary depict street scenes and styles of the period as well as elements of the downtown transit system. Regina Municipal Railway employees are also depicted and some are identified.
The fonds consists of footage of wheat farming and farmers, parades and festivals in Vermilion, train and car accidents and efforts to clean the crash sites, curling and hockey games in Vermilion, weddings, Vermilion Provincial Park, and Dartmoor, England.
The fonds consists of two photographs, one depicting the interior of the bakery and the other depicting several bakery wagons aligned outside of the bakery.
The fonds consists of the manuscript of "Seventy Years of Growing with Canada" (368 p. with name index), a letter from an editor from Pyerson Press, dated 1938, and a photocopy of an article on Zephirin Malhiot. The manuscript is the autobiography of Mr. Malhiot, from his childhood spent on his parents' farm in Becancour, where he learned French traditions, up to 1927. His memories cover both the technical and the political aspects of building railways and energy stations in Canada at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
The fonds consists of three photographs regarding CN and the Keefes, numerous Rail Operating Instruction and rule books and other trade manuals, ledgers detailing day to day train operations, newspaper articles related to railway history, two union constitution manuals and a labour relations manual, Instructions and Schedule for the CNR Royal Tour in 1939, a folio of folded circuit designs, and numerous CN time tables.
