The fonds consists of coloured slides of Prince Rupert and the surrounding area including the airport in 1959, Oval Bay, 800 2nd Ave. West, Salt Lakes,
Skeena River, CNR Dock Fire, fishing boats, Metlakatla, a tombstone from Port Essington, Fred & Montana Dowdie, Ksan, Kitwanga and the BC Ferry.

The fonds consists of personal and professional records from the Collins family. It includes family photographs and negatives taken in Prince Rupert, England, Alaska, and Panama. There are also photographs of soliders taken during the Second World War in Japan, a photograph of the cargo ship Earlscourt Park which was built in 1944 at the Prince Rupert Drydock, and Thomas W. senior on a fishing trip with Bing Crosby. There are 105 architectural drawings including blueprints, plans, and maps pertaining to the drydock in Prince Rupert and the City of Prince Rupert's engineering department. Personal documents for Thomas W. Sr. include correspondence (1956), postcards addressed to Thomas and Agnes (1910, 1920, 1939, 1952), a wedding invitation, statement of service with CNR at the drydock (1921- 1939), Canadian Gangway Pass (1963), Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Line card (1919), unemployment insurance commission card (1943), Active Service Book - Canadian Pay (1918), Indenture to Apprentice (1901), Canadian Expeditionary Force Discharge Certificate (1919), a Sick Furlough form and a fortnightly time book for payments made to dock employees with lists of names and payments pencilled in. Documents for Jack include certificates for perfect attendance at Sunday School (1930) and the Introductory Examination for the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1934), correspondence including three hand-written letters; two written to his father in 1963 and one regarding the Queen Charlotte Canners Ltd. (1950), and a postcard (1939). Also includes an Unemployment Insurance Commission form (1963) Kincolith Preceptory No. 59 Freemason's constitution and Bylaws, a notice of motion, Masonic ephemera, an autograph book (1934), and a Wartime Merchant Shipping Limited Shipyard Terms booklet. Documents for Thomas W. Jr. include a postcard, 3 Booth Memorial High School Student Association cards (1938, 1940-42), a War Dept. report at the Sub-Port in Prince Rupert (1944), and a handwritten diary of his time served on the U.S.S. destroyers McKean and Henry W. Tucker from 1945 to 1946. The diary ends on October 31, 1946 where he notes that he has been away for two years.

The collection consists of photographs collected by the Morgan family. It includes photographs of the Morgan family, a large explosion in the construction of Prince Rupert, rodeos and May Day at Acropolis Hill, picnics, ice hockey, swimmers at Salt Lakes, Grotto Cigar Store, the Skeena River flood in 1936, Borden Street School, portraits of various sports teams and athletes produced by Benson Studios in Prince Rupert, a refrigerator brine tank for CN, the S.S. Catala, the International Longshoremen Association, and pictures of staff and students at Conrad School (1949-1966) and Roosevelt School (1973-1974).

The collection consists of 7 photographs in Prince Rupert (1958-1967). It includes the Kaiwo Maru at the Ocean Dock (1967), the HMCS Ontario at the Grain Elevator and in Chatham Sound (1958), a DC6 at Prince Rupert Airport (1964), an oil rig drilling for hydro carbons in Hecate Strait (1968), the Queen of Prince Rupert under construction at the Victoria Machinery Depot yard, Ogden Point, Victoria (1965) and the welcoming celebration in Prince Rupert for arrival of Queen of Prince Rupert (1966).

The fonds consists of records from the Canadian National Railways. It includes a CNR Employees' Medical Aid Association of B.C. Constitution and By-Laws handbook (1937), The CNR in 1952 a booklet form Annual Report, five Authorized Boiler Pressures and Haulage Rates for Locomotives charts (1937, 1941, 1944, 1948 and 1951), and six architectural drawings consisting of blueprints from the CNR and GTP for the Rupert townsite (191-), Station building at Endako and trackage (1922), Station surveys for Pacific (1928) and Smithers (1928), Prince Rupert easterly track before fencing Mile 200 to 240 (1914), McBride (1928), Mile 340 to 360 Telkwa to Endako (1915), Mile 100 to 120 with 3 tunnels showing Vanarsdol, Phillips Creek, Usk and Hardscrabble Creek (1914), and a blueprint of Prince Rupert's waterfront showing CNR terminals with markings in red and yellow that was used for the Municipal Act and CN Railway appeal of Assessment (1927).

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Prince Rupert Drydock and Shipyard from 1942 - 1943. It includes correspondence from 1942 - 1945, volumes of Builders For Freedom, a yard magazine created by the drydock staff, original cartoon drawings by Frank Bird used in Builders For Freedom, and manuals and booklets regarding shipbuilding. It also contains 127 photographs contained in an album created by Joel Pillsbury, 61 photographs depicting operations especially during the Second World War, a drawing depicting the drydock general yard layout, blueprints and trial results of Victory ships and Type "B" Coasters, as well as documents showing the property investment cost of construction and machinery contractors with additions and betterments.

The collection consists of 9 photographs and sheet music for The Imperial Native March for piano composed by Job Nelson of Metlakatla, B.C. published in 1907. The photographs include a view of 10th Avenue East and Bacon Street looking towards Prince Rupert's downtown, circa 1920s, the Kaiwo Maru docked at Prince Rupert, the Sea Cadet Band in Comox in 1943, people at Salt Lakes in 1912, the Prince Rupert at the GTP dock, the Hazelton graveyard and the bridge near Hazelton.

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