The fonds consists of photographs which show examples of work completed by Sparling-Davis (including pipeline, oil tanks, refineries, and distribution systems), work in progress, and workshop/office/work site locations. The fonds also consists of a corporate profile of Sparling-Fowler-Murphy, Inc.

The fonds consists of photographs and negatives taken in or near Coal Branch, Jasper, Banff, Luscar, Mountain Park, Lovett, and Yellowhead County with some photos taken in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia. The photos have a wide breadth of subject material including mining (including mine fires, rescue horses, miners, specific mines, equipment, and infrastructure), sports (including baseball, curling, tennis, soccer, and track), leisure activities (including music, parties, and performances), women, outdoor activities (including picnics, hunting, camping, ice skating, horseback riding, and snow-shoeing), landscapes, and people in a wide age range.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Leslie Corness over the course of his work and travels from 1944 to 1971. Photographs were taken in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Northwest Territories, the US, England, Scotland, and in various countries in continental Europe. Some of the photographs are arranged into a scrapbook.

The fonds reflects B.C. Tanners' business interests and professional work in the oil industry. The fonds pertains to his position as President of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. and his position as an accountant with B.C. Tanner and Co. and consists of the records of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. as well as the preceding bodies of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. including financial statements, minutes, certificates of incorporation, agreements, and reports of Lassiter Petroleum Ltd., Lassiter Oil Syndicate, Kuma Oils Ltd., Lobitos Oil Fiels Canada Ltd, Horn River Resources Ltd, Round Valley Oil Co as well as maps, and reports related to artic petroleum industry. The fonds also includes materials reflecting his agricultural activities and includes notices, certificates, and a cattle inventory relating to the raising of Charolais Cattle; and an account of life growing up in Magrath, Alberta.

The fonds relates to B. Gnatovich's career in the heritage industry and consists of copies of a photograph featuring a view of the Luscar Coal Mine acquired by B. Gnatovich.

The fonds consists of one 16 mm film copy of Oil Across the Rockies created by Richard Finnie while he worked for the Bechtel Corporation.

The fonds consists of materials acquired by A.M. Dickson including newspaper clippings from the Edmonton Weekly Town Topics circa 1917 and pertaining to the Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited.

The collection consists of mining agreements between coal mining unions and coal mines in Alberta dating from 1915 to 1961. Coal mines represented in the collection include the Canadian Collieries Limited, Cadomin Coal Co. Ltd., Canmore Coal Company Limited, Mine Workers Central Union of Estevan and District, Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, Bighorn and Saunders Creek Collieries, Drumheller and Wayne District Coal Companies, Hillcrest Collieries Ltd., Hinton Collieries Limited, International Coal and Coke Company Limited, McGillivary Creek and Coal Company Limited, Lethbridge Collieries Limited, Luscar Collieries Limited, McLeod River Hard Coal Co. Limited.

The fonds consists of negatives, slides, photographs and films shot by A.C. Lynn and Amy Zelmer including the Alberta Coal Branch, coal transportation, coal mines, the Edmonton Exhibition, the Castle Hotel fire (in Edmonton), a conference in Banff, the North Western Pulp and Power plant in Hinton, Fort McMurray, an archeological dig at Fort George, a painting class, Inuit Child Development, (produced by the International Communications Institute) and a film by Amy Zelmer (and Harold Alston) about Fort Mackay.

The fonds consists of three photographs. The photographs depict different views of activities occurring at Benesch's sawmill, located at Lobstick Jct [Junction], including:;- a shot of men posing around a saw, logs and cut planks;- lumber piles and a horse and cart carrying lumber;- and a view of log piles taken from Auto road.