The fonds consists of four photographs of Colin Fraser leaving Athabasca for Fort Chipewyan in [1910]. Colin was the nephew of Simon Fraser. The last photograph is of a paddlewheel steamboat being built in Athabasca.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Johnston family, William R. (Bill) Day's moose team, the Johnston house and bakery, and cattle boarding the ferry to cross the river. Daisy Gooding (Johnston) wrote a brief family history which includes information on the 1913 fire, 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, and life as a ferryman.

The fonds consists of photographs of : freighting, Lee Goodwin, Athabasca Hudson's Bay Co. manager's house, Muskeg Creek, Tex Palmer and dog team, Pelican Wells (1920), sawmill, Richard Secord's trading post, Whiskey Trail,and Wood's log house.

The fonds consists of photographs of : 1933 aerial view of Athabasca, Alberta & Great Waterways Railway (1927), Athabasca view from across the river [1910], cable cage, ferry, scows, and Vance house.

The fonds consists of photographs of: All Saints Anglican Church Sunday School picnic; Athabasca Public School, Grade 8 class [1919]; Cecil, Jack, Laura, Marjorie, and Sid Barnott; CGIT group on a picnic, ferry in 1923, ferry shack, Cecil Fowler, Katherine Lewis, Grace Mills, Muskeg Creek bridge in 1923, Alice Pratt, Margaret Rennison, and swimming in the Athabasca River.

The fonds consists of photographs of Athabasca with the following subject headings: Athabasca view east to west, gas well, grain elevator, Imperial Lumber Co. Ltd., Del Lang, Loiselle Transport truck, Plains Western Gas & Electric Co. Ltd. truck, plowing snow from train tracks, trucks on Highway 2 north of Clyde, and the water tower on the Athabasca River front.

The fonds consists of photographs of the steamer Athabasca River and an unidentified steamer being built.

The fonds consists of 22 post cards, from an original group of 25, in the series : Mid Snow and Ice printed in France by The Oblates of Mary Immaculate. There are two other photographs of early Athabasca. The photo subject headings are : Athabasca River rapid, Bishop Breynat, Brother Girard, Canadian Northern Railway depot in Athabasca, Colin Fraser, Chesterfield Inlet, Cree woman, dog team, Monseignor Grouard, first airplane in north, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, igloo, Inuit, kayak, and MacKenzie River ice breakup.

The fonds consists of material containing the following subject headings: airplanes, Hans Birkigt, Chester Reid Day, farm machinery, Jake Gislason, Grande Prairie Flying Service crest, Abner Hingley, Irwin family, Walter Kielbauch, David Keir, 1873-1957; Monty Kirkpatrick, James McIntosh, 1885-1960, and Art Schumacher.

The fonds consists of photographs with the following subject headings: Max Beeton, Curtiss Store, Island Lake, Clifford and Evelyn McCue's house, Dora McCue's house, Bert Robbins, Irene Robbins, sawmill, Emanuel Schadeck's barn, and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie (Buzz) Simmons. There is also a framed photograph of the ferry road on the north side of the Athabasca River.