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Image shows Indigenous children standing near the open doors of the Peace River Mission School while two nuns are speaking to a man. There is a vehicle surrounded by several people on the far left of the image. The back of the postcard says "Mission School Peace River 'let out' so that staff and pupils could see their first automobile Dec 1913" Original description: "A group of aboriginal children outside the front door of the mission school at Peace River in 1913, are witnessing the first car to come to Peace River town."

Settlers are standing near Teepees and tents at Saskatoon Lake celebrating the first Dominion Day Celebration on the Grande Prairie.

Indigenous Tipis and wagons at the first Dominion Day Celebrations on the Grande Prairie, at Saskatoon Lake. Original description said Aboriginal instead of Indigenous.

Wives and children of the Metis threshing crew at Tom Sheehan's farm near Clairmont include Louise Webber, Mrs. Dave Capot and Mrs. Dan McLean. The babies are strapped into the traditional moss bags which took the place of diapers.

Image shows an Indigenous peoples camp on the Beaverlodge River. Three men and a child are standing in front of three tipis. The ground is partially covered in snow. The original description said Indian camp instead of Indigenous peoples camp. The title is taken from the back of the photograph.

Image shows a woman on horseback, beside another horse, standing in front of the Roman Catholic Church and cemetery. The first Roman Catholic Mission to be established in the Grande Prairie District was built by Father Alac with the aid of Brother Mathias about 1909. The Catholic population at this time consisted of about 20 Cree families located around the Flying Shot Lake area. The title is taken from the caption on the back of the photograph.

A crowd is gathered in front of teepees and tents at the Lake Saskatoon sports, July 1, 1910.

John Stocks (left), first Deputy Minister of Public Works, and A. H. McQuarrie (tallest man in centre) with several unidentified Indigenous men and children at Sturgeon Lake.

Residential school students outside the Mission Church at Sturgeon Lake.

Formal dress portrait of Mike Dion Buffalo, a member of the Hobbema First Nations in Central Alberta, sitting in a moose antler chair with rifle across his knees.