The fonds consists of both black and white and colour photographs with 2 photograph albums taken by Don Hamilton during the 1940s and 1950s when he worked in various fish plants in British Columbia. They include photographs of operations at Carlisle, Bones Bay, and Butedale canneries. There are some photographs depicting family and friends, Claire Salter, Norman Christenson, Charles McMillan, William Malcom, and Sylvester Anthony MacDonald in a way of life enjoyed by people living at the canneries. There are also photographs of the RCAF MTB Rescue Boat M-234, five vessels named Mary K, Venture, Sambo Point, Coquitlam, and Cape Calvert, as well as helicopters and float planes used for a rescue operation when a U.S. Bomber crew ditched on Princess Royal Island in the 1950s (Broken Arrow). Also includes a hand painted photograph of a paddle wheeler, and photographs of Vancouver.

The collection consists of photographs of the ship "Dinamac," the Duffus family home, Thomas McMeekin & Sons business, Skeena River scenes, parades, and planes at Seal Cove.

The fonds consists of correspondence. It includes six letters written by Anna Harrison while living in Prince Rupert to her parents James and Margaret Smellie and sisters Madge and Lucy Traill Henderson back in Glascow, Scotland (1909-1910). There is a paragraph in one letter written by Benjamin Harrison about purchasing a lot in Prince Rupert. It also includes one letter written by Mary Ellen Reddie (1909) to her sister Margaret Smellie (nee Morrison), Anna Harrison's mother. The letters describe life in Prince Rupert at the time and the work of Dr. John Oates Reddie, Benjamin Harris's business Brilliant Signs, Prime Minister Laurier's visit to the city in August 1910, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.

The fonds consists of nitrate negatives and glass negatives that depict the early Prince Rupert town site, pioneers, businesses, scenes, and events. Included is a wedding certificate from 1923 for Ethel Vivian Alabaster and Gus Slane.

The collection consists of photographs that were collected by Francis and Lily Brown when they lived in Prince Rupert from 1911 to 1917. Some of the photographs are originals, some are postcards and others are copies of the originals still held by the family. The photographs include scenes such as Crippen Cove, the arrival of the Duke of Connaught on the Princess Alice in September 1912, blasting of areas for expanding the city, 3rd Avenue in 1911 and the arrival of the first train from Winnipeg in 1914.

The collection consists of 9 photographs of Prince Rupert ca. 1920s and the S.S. Prince Rupert in the harbour

The collection consists of photographs from an album dated August 30, 1911, negatives, and textual records. The photographs and negatives include scenes of people at work and play in Prince Rupert, including the first blacksmith shop, picnics on beaches, loggers with a machine and at camp, a sign for Fred Scadden on the side of a car with French Hair Dressing Salon and F.W. Chandler Stoves in the back ground on 6th Street, the 1921 launching of "Canadian Scottish" at the drydock, the 1910 wreck of the steamship S.S. Princess May in Alaska, and a public celebration beside the federal building. Other scenes include the "Athalie" on the water, a boat at a cannery, men at work on a fishing boat, totem poles in Hazelton, and two people in a canoe in front of a village. Textual records include a menu from the Three Sisters Café and a postcard addressed to Bill.

The fonds consists of memoirs written by Dorothy Hardie Amor about living in Port Essington in the 1920s, and photographs of Port Essington and the Skeena River taken during that time. The photographs include town scenes, people, fishing boats, school children, a one-room schoolhouse, community picnics aboard the "Northern Cross" mission boat with Reverend Rushbrook, and the 1925 fire. The pictures are accompanied by a Key written by Dorothy Amor.

The fonds consists of photographs taken in Prince Rupert in 1939 and 1940. It includes photographs of the Cold Storage Plant, ships and boats in the harbour including Ispaco No. 1, S.S. Prince Rupert and S.S. North Coast, the CFPR radio station on Second Ave, church at Kitwanga, Prince Rupert Club, Post Office on Third Ave West, Prince Rupert Hospital, horse logging in Hazelton, government grain elevator, the courthouse, Inverness Cannery, the Prince Rupert drydock, Imperial Oil dock, and scenes in and around Prince Rupert. People depicted are Leonard Thorne, Mike, Walter, and Olga Karasosky, and Walter Sherman.

Collection consists of records and photographs from activities of Tiny Tots and recreation classes taught by Margaret Blain at the Civic Centre on Second Avenue. Includes notes, the Civic Centre's Bylaws revised 6 Aug 1946, correspondence, a Pro-Rec Centres bulletin, membership cards, Civic Centre Program Bulletins, program lists, a Civic Centre leaders' handbook, book of enrollment, and attendance for programs. Photographs include the civic centre building, gymnastics, tiny tots, and staff including Don Forward, Neil Ross, Bob Moore, and Jack McIntosh. Other photographs depict Norman Baker and Emile Blain, Margaret's husband, and Emile and another employee inside Blain Brothers Grocers at 837 2nd Ave. West. Ephemera consists of a Prince Rupert General Hospital feeding schedule for Barbara Blain, a Reid's Holiday Tog. Ltd. for Miss M. Slin, a Pro-Rec winter schedule from 1946-1947, and a birth form from the Prince Rupert General Hospital, dated June 21, 1950.