This collection consists of a family portrait of Henry Pope Mills and his wife Lydia Ann (Mutlow) with their children Daisy (Ball), Will, Percy, Everett, Annie (Warren), Tom, Sadie (Young), Maggie (Cudmore), Lottie (Knowlton) and Roy, circa 1910.

Henry Pope Mills was born on 2 August 1859 at Little York, Prince Edward Island, the son of Stephen and Eleanor Mill. He was married to Lydia Ann Mutlow of Vernon River on 15 February 1879 with whom he had 10 children. For many years he operated a butcher and green grocer's shop at the corner of Weymouth and Fitzroy Streets in Charlottetown.