The collection consists of photographs of Nanton and Parkland area personalities, events, ranches, businesses, schools, and sports (1882-1943); diary of an unknown ranch hand (1907); and a program for Chautauqua events held in Nanton (1926).

The collection consists of the annual instructional materials of the Banff Square Dance Institute and other square dancers' gatherings; badges and name tags; photographs; sound recordings; choreographic diagrams; square dancing magazines; and miscellaneous personal manuscript items.

The collection consists of photographs of homes, businesses, hotels, and ice-fishing in the Seba Beach area. Includes letter about the history of Seba Beach by R. Perley Cull, one of the community's founders (1944).

The collection consists of recorded interviews of the following people: J. Arthur Allen, Ken W. Allen, A. Jim Bagley, Bill Bagley, Mary Baher, Mathias "Mike" Baher, Pete Bifano, John Boychuk, Frank Burstrom, George E. Camp, Agnes and Ray Campbell, Isabel Cochrane, M.F. "Red" Creighton, Cliff Duke, Max Ebert, Oliver Goodell, William O. Harrison, Max Hoover, Norman E. King, George E. Korsvik, Alpha "Ray" Legace, Rex Logan, Freeman "Friday" Lonsdale, Peter Lum, Larry A. McGuire, Eugene Merrill, Cora B. Mustard, C. Vern Mustard, Hersch Neighbor, David Charles Nixon, Owen Philipps, Felix Plante, Charles Doyle Reay, James A. Riviere, Andy Russell, Leo Rutledge, Chester V. "Clarence" Sands, Floyd Smith, James H.S. Tegart, Ken M. Thomson, Oliver Travers, Mark and Agnes Truxler, Madeline Turnor, and Thomas Wilde. Includes some photographs of interviewees.

The collection consists of sheet music (1874-1949); and lists and recordings of popular songs dating from 1847 to 1950 (1969).

The collection consists of photographs of Viking, Harland, Gilpin, Innisfree, and Woodham, including personalities, farming, events and businesses (1900-1967); and E.A. Nelson's homestead receipt and certificate of naturalization (1907-1911).

The collection consists of advertisements for automobiles; farm machinery; household appliances; theatres, circuses, and entertainments; food and drink; political meetings; tobacco, cigarettes and liquor; clothing; general merchants; land and real estate sales throughout Alberta; sale of lots in Calgary; and the Calgary Stampede. Includes front pages about the Titanic sinking, first Alberta Legislature, and other stories.

The collection consists of recorded interviews and interview summaries with pioneers of Waterton Lakes National Park. Frank Goble, and Ed and Cheryl Mitchell were interviewed but not recorded, although notes were taken and are found with the inventory. There is very poor sound quality on the Tom Jenkins recorded interview due to a cassette malfunction. The Frank Johansen interview summary is accompanied by extensive biographical material about his great aunt, Lu Nielson.

The collection consists of slides of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede parade.

The collection consists of slides of Calgary, including the Royal Train (1939), Calgary Highlanders, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, buildings, street scenes, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, St. Andrew's district, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, Calgary Tower, and Chinatown; and views of the Banff Springs Hotel; slides for geology courses at SAIT, including "Color Slides of Canadian Geology" for Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists.