Fonds consists of several catalogues and price lists published by the J.H. Ashdown Hardware Company, advertising the wide range of goods they sold including tools, furnishings, hardware, household wares, and industrial equipment. Includes the first fully illustrated catalogue published by the company in 1888, ranging to one of the last made before the company was sold with pages dating from 1968. The fonds also includes a copper etching plate bearing the image of the company’s store in Edmonton.