This collection consists of 46 black & white snapshot photographs mounted in an album (designated A28) and five other photographs of various sizes found loose in the album. Almost all of the photographs date from ca.1900 - 1910. Subjects include locations from Liverpool to Saskatchewan and it is possible that the album documents the experiences of British immigrants who homesteaded on the Saskatchewan prairie around the turn of the century. Included among the photographs are views that, although unidentified, are possibly of the interior and exterior of a homesteader's cabin. Also included are several views of various farm equipment and livestock. Other photographs include a 1920 photograph of a threshing machine and a 1928 souvenir photograph of a B.C. Electric Railway touring car.

Collection includes: a large studio portrait of Hugh with his wife Eleanor and their children (Olive Lillian, Herbert Rutledge and Ethel Winifred) taken at Portage la Prairie, ca.1885; an individual portrait of Ethel, aged 4, probably taken at the same time; two small portraits of Olive Harley, ca.1870 and 1875; a large class photograph identified as students outside Treherne School, ca.1895; a snapshot of a man identified as Dr. George Bruce holding an infant, ca.1908; two snapshots featuring the donor as a small child with her mother, Ethel Bruce, ca.1908-09.

Fonds primarily consist of the personal records of Winnifred Van Slyck, which remained in her custody until her death. These records do not form part of the documentation of her period as President of the DCCI or as Curator of the Costume Museum of Canada, the records of which remained in the custody of the Museum and were accessioned in 1999. Items found here include diaries, personal photograph albums and scrapbooks, research notes and background material for major projects such as the Springfield History Book, very early conceptual notes for the Dugald Costume Museum project, lists of works of art, and personal biographical records and clipping files.