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.

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 76 negatives and 9 photographs from the 1940s. It includes scenes around Prince Rupert during the Second World War such as gun placements, artillery on boats, soldiers, ship building at the dry dock, Hays Creek, CN Park, downtown views, fish boats, family, and a concert.

The collection consists of a photo album that contains photographs of military personnel. Also included are postcards sent to Arlene Russell, newspaper clippings, and military artifacts such as badges, pins, and Second World War artifacts.

The collection consists of ration books, tokens from the Second World War, declarations, receipts, and an application for sick mariners service. Included are photographs of Kris's fishing vessel "Clear."

The fonds consists of correspondence. Included is a letter from Brown's mother, a cancelled cheque from the North Coast Commercial Co. Ltd., and letters from A.R. Williams Machining Co. Limited and Simon Leiser & Co.

The fonds consists of photographs, slides, negatives, maps, and textual records created and gathered by Gladys Young Blyth. These contain local scenes such as lighthouses, totem poles, Seafest activities, fish boats, crab traps, North Pacific Cannery, Kwinitsa Station, and the seaplane base at Seal Cove. The maps and sketches are of Kitselas, Port Essington, Union Passage and Tuwartz Inlet, Otter Passage to Bonilla Island, Work Channel, and a copy of the plan of the Kit-Kah-Tla Indian Reserves Coast District, 1891-1892. Her reference notes refer to the Hudson's Bay Company, First Nations, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the pictograph at Tyee, and the net building industry.

The collection consists of maps and photographs. It includes two surveys of Inverness Cannery (1923, 1934), a blueprint showing wartime houses' sewer connections (1945), a Canadian National Railways map of the waterfront showing businesses (1947), and photographs of buildings and homes in Prince Rupert and Shawatlans (195-).

The fonds consists of records from the Albert E. Wood family. It includes personal and business correspondence, three nursing notebooks belonging to Marguerite Wood, certificates, ephemera and photographs of family, scenes in Prince Rupert such as fishing boats, the cold storage plant, 5th Avenue West and 2nd Avenue West in the 1920s, Rebekah Lodge members, Tsimpsian Lodge members, the 1930 graduating class of the Prince Rupert Hospital School of Nursing, Bill Smith and Bill Wilson-Murray of Northern B.C. Power. It also includes records and postcards from Margaret Maddrell, Bert Wood's sister, and her first husband, Thomas Clwydd Williams.

The fonds consists of photographs of early Prince Rupert showing the building of the town site from the first pile driven to build the wharf in 1906, the first grade of the railway in 1908, the first GTP passenger train, and scenes of early Prince Rupert and the surrounding area up until to the 1920s. There are photographs of people in Prince Rupert, including family and colleagues, nurses during WWI, the drydock, planes, parades, boats, steamships, reservoirs, the Skeena River, Ocean Falls, the cold storage plant, football games, picnics, fire trucks, one photograph of native children in Metlakatla, and a logging camp at Alice Arm. It also includes a certificate of appointment from when Ernest was made a Notary Public on September 21, 1909 and a postcard received by Ernest in Prince Rupert in July 1907, mailed from England June 3, 1907.