The fonds consists of photographs of the Zabudney family and friends. It also includes photographs and negatives of people in army uniforms.

The fonds consists of records relating to Joe Scott's private and public life. It includes correspondence, financial information, business records, certificates, photographs and negatives, journal entries, speeches, court records, receipts for explosive purchases, minutes, society records, corporate and personal income tax returns, and newspaper clippings.

The fonds consists of personal and business records from the Vance family. It includes correspondence, reports, receipts, cards, invitations, an income tax notice, a certificate of enrollment in the Presbyterian church, an officer's medical record for A.D. Vance, and four photographs.

The fonds consists of records referring to Peter Lester's time as mayor. There is one item of correspondence from the State of Alaska thanking Peter for travelling to Ketchikan for the inauguration of MV Wickersmith in 1968. There are photographs taken between 1958-1992 of trips to China and Japan, the unveiling of the restored Japanese fishing boat Kazu Maru in Prince Rupert's Mariner's Park, the interior of the courthouse and CityWest, city crews, road construction, streets, official openings, presentations and visits by politicians. There are also photographs of the fire hall on Fulton Street, the swimming pool on 2nd Ave., parks, housing, the airport ferry, golf course, ball fields, sawmill, the seaplane base at Seal Cove, Philip M. Ray Insurance and Travel, the Chatham Daycare, RCMP and RCMP ball, a baseball team and Bernice Liu being honoured at a celebration. There is also a photograph of mayor and council when Dr. R.G. Large became Freeman of the City in 1977. There are cassette recordings from interviews on radio with Peter and some of dictated letters from the mayor's office, a diary from 1961, newspaper clippings from 1958-1966, and certificates. It contains a certificate Mary received from the Prince Rupert Community Council and negatives, film cassettes and film indexes that depicting community celebrations and family events such as birthdays, parades, dance recitals, weddings and graduations from 1988 to 1993.

The fonds consists of photographs of the McCaffery family. It includes family and friends in Prince Rupert and at boarding school and family holidays at places such as the family's summer home in Qualicum Beach.

The fonds consists of photographs of family in friends and textual records including personal correspondence, household receipts, a weighing station tally sheet for crab catches, and ephemera.

The fonds consists of photographs of the Central Hotel, its employees and relatives of the owners Peter and Cora Elizabeth Black. It also includes photos taken during the trips to and from Prince Rupert, collected by John Robert Service who visited the Central Hotel to see his grandmother, Cora Black, between 1931 and 1939.

The fonds consists of photographs, nitrate negatives, and textual records belonging to John L. MacIntosh. It includes photographs of people in Prince Rupert, including employees at the Prince Rupert firehall, relatives and friends of the MacIntosh family, and the Grand Trunk steamship S.S. Prince Rupert grounded on Ripple Rock. It also includes correspondence to John L. MacIntosh and an invoice for his brother, Robert M. MacIntosh.

The fonds consists of Harvey's correspondence, notes and reports relating to his activities with the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce and as president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce from 1951 to 1960. The fonds also includes plans of the Digby Island Airport, a manuscript of "Story of a Firm," the cashbooks and trustbooks (1908-1913) of Williams and Manson law firm, and photographs of Ruth Harvey's family when she was a child. Also includes maps from 1931 of the Skeena Electoral District, Annette Island Road Map and Mileage Table A.I.L.F. No. 159 from 4 March, 1942, International boundry between the United States and Canada from Cape Muzon to Mount Elias in 1923, court proceedings concerning the grounding of the m/v Queen of Prince Rupert on 11 August, 1967, a report entitled "The Bulkley Valley" by Nell Dockrill, a correspondence report from the Prince Rupert Drydock Committee, a portion (copy) of a typed manuscript entitled "My Memoirs: a Lifetime in British Columbia" by Wiggs O'Neill, minute and shareholder books of the Prince Rupert Publishing Company Ltd. and the Terrace Club Ltd, a brief on the proposed airport on Digby Island, negatives of fish boats, Invercan No. 2 and No. 4, fish plants, the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage plant in Seal Cove, postacards from Uncle Newton, Cow Bay, Rushbrook Floats, and the waterfront.

The fonds consists of photographs taken in Prince Rupert and documents relating to Nick Gurvich. It includes photographs of a "Men's Own Basketball Team" (1912), Gyro Club (1948), the fire at Columbia Cellulose (1967) and drawings of the Canadian Government Grain Elevator in camouflage during the Second World War (1944), a Department of Labour Mobilization sheet for Nick John Gurvich (1944), War Savings Canada stamp, and a war savings certificate for Nickolas Gurvich.