<p>The fonds consists of films that were created by Wolfgang Witschl and document travel, hobbies, family activities, and community events. Activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, road trips, and family celebrations are all captured. Witschl also documented various wildlife in natural settings across Alberta, including bighorn sheep, bears, salmon, elk, moose, and caribou.</p>;<p>Public events documented by Witschl include Edmonton's Heritage Days and Klondike Days, the closing of the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, marches and parades through Edmonton's downtown, a pageant and powwow to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 6 at Dried Meat Hill (Ka-Ke-Wuk), the christening of Mount Michener (which features Peter Lougheed and Rt. Hon. Daniel Roland Michener), and 1967 centennial celebrations in Edmonton (featuring Lester Pearson and Edmonton mayor Vincent Dantzer).</p>

Fonds consists of a copy of Winthrop S. Brooks' journal, entitled <em>Wild Fowling in Alberta, Canada, 1909</em>. The journal dates from August 1909 to February 1910.

The fonds consists of hand-coloured lantern slides of flowers, the movement of floral parts, fertilization and seed production, fruits, flower gardening, ornamental planting, vegetable gardening, farm scenes, potatoes, the microscopic structure of plants, landscapes (Pacific Coast, mountains, park country, plains), farms, mammals, birds, the erosion of rocks, sunsets and clouds, clouds, deposits of sand and gravel, stratification of rocks and soil, plants as soil makers, erosion of rocks, logging and lumber, and trees; glass plate negatives of the Banff area including hotels, golf courses, mountains; farm machinery; negatives of the family's farm, family members, farming, harvesting, picnics, the Drumheller area including hoodoos; and a photograph of William Copeland McCalla. Fonds also includes three ledgers of farm notes, seed records, accounts of receipts and expenditures, manure records, etc. for William Copeland McCalla and Margaret McCalla's farms at St. Catherines, Ontario and Bremner, Alberta. Part of the third ledger is farm notes, accounts of receipts and expenditures, etc. for Frederick and Gladys McCalla, who took over the Bremner farm from parents William and Margaret. Includes some loose notes, correspondence, receipts, Alberta Wheat Pool grading slips, etc. Fonds also includes a CD made in 2008 by Alex McCalla that contains scans of all the pages in the ledgers. Fonds also includes McCalla's lantern slide projector and a wooden lantern slide case in a canvas carrying bag.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Holland during the course of his work as a pedologist at several of his work sites in Sri Lanka, Chile, and across Alberta and other Canadian locations. Specifically, the images show measurements, digs, surveys, and Holland and his colleagues in the field. There are also images from Holland's personal life including family photos, photos and slides of Holland's gardens and rose bushes, and photos and slides taken while travelling, including time spent in Chile and Sri Lanka. The remainder of the fonds consists of 8mm film of Holland's personal and professional life and Holland's incomplete auto-biography.

The fonds consists of 17 mechanically reproduced souvenir postcards of views of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Buffalo Park (Wainwright), Alberta.

The fonds consists of: 61,000 black and white and colour aerial photographic negatives and 5 flight index maps. Photographed by Weldwood of Canada Ltd., these negatives indicate Weldwood's Forestry Management Area around Hinton, taken 1955-1981. The flight index maps direct the researcher to a specific negative.

The fonds consists of 40 blank picture postcards of Alberta landscapes dating from the 1920's, and a grain receipt dating from 1947 issued to Parrish Heimbecker.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1920 to circa (ca.) 1955, of the Banff Springs Hotel and the Banff townsite and buildings, Angel Glacier near Jasper, Chateau Lake Louise, Central Park, the library, Burns' house in Calgary, views of the University of Alberta and the river valley in Edmonton, the interior of different homes in Edmonton including kitchens and living room with fireplaces and radios, and the interior of a cabin and St. Mark's Church, both at South Cooking Lake.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to Vern French's activities in a lobby to the federal and provincial governments to re-establish Buffalo National Park at Wainwright, Alberta and includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, various government acts, articles, press releases, reports, minutes and photographs depicting various buffalo artefacts owned by Vern French, and Indian corn.

The fonds consists of a photograph of Provost, Alberta and a photograph of Horseshoe Falls Dam on the Bow River and dating from ca.1928.