The collection consists of two snapshots featuring the donor's parents, Mary Jane and James Smith, standing full length on a country road on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, ca.May 24, 1935. Mary Jane is wearing her 1885 wedding gown.

Items consist of 3 black and white photographs of Miss Fridfinnson's family members and their acquaintances dating from 1891 to ca.1923. These include Veiga Jackson, Dorothy & Bill Van Alstine, and Valdimar (Walter) Myrdal (uncle of the donor). Also described here is a piece of lace is believed to have come from the infant's dress featured in one of the photographs.

Three of the photographs in this collection are snapshots, ca.1917, featuring a little girl identified as the donor and wearing a dress and bonnet donated to the museum. One of these snapshots also shows the donor's mother, Florence Bailey, and the donor's infant brother, Owen. Also included are two identical portraits, ca.1913, of a young woman identified as the donor's mother-in-law, Mrs. Carrie Barrick, wearing her wedding gown (which has also been donated to the Dugald Costume Museum).

This small collection consists of 14 cartes de visites photographs dating from ca.1865 - 1880. Only one subject is identified (through a penciled note on the back of the carte) and no relationship between the subjects of the photographs and the donor can be discerned from the donation records. The cartes are all individual portraits. Six are of women, five are of men, one is of am adolescent girl and two are of small children. Imprints indicate that the photographs were taken at various locations in southern Ontario and in the American Midwest (specifically one in Iowa and two in Illinois).

The collection includes: 2 colour photographs of Roland and Etta James with the wedding couple, the bride's parents and guests at their son Douglas' wedding in 1965; and 2 colour photographs featuring Etta and Roland at their son Gordon's wedding in 1956.

Included in this collection is a photograph of the Carr family home of Woodleigh cottage, ca.1880 - 85; five photographs of members of the Carr family in England, ca.1880 - 1950; ten photographs of Robert and Evelyn Carr and their children, ca.1885 - 1916, including a view of the family homestead at Virden in the early days, ca.1895 - 1900; a carte de visite of an an unidentified young girl (possibly Evelyn Holmes), ca.1872/73; and an unidentified wedding party posed in a garden, ca.1875. Also included with this collection is a small pencil sketch of an unidentified manor house.

This collection contains photographs that have come down to the donor, Irma (Honey) Braddell, from both sides of her family tree. Included with this holding is an album containing 48 photographs dating from ca.1870 - 1900 and which had belonged to Amy (Austen) Flynn. Subjects include members of Amy Flynn's family, including aunts and uncles, her two brothers and two sisters and their respective mates and families and her husband, William Flynn. Also in the album is an exterior shot of a Prairie homestead ca.1890 and the interior of a millinery shop ca.1895-1900. Photographer's imprints indicate that the photographs originated in Wisconsin as well as North Dakota and Montana. Also included are twelve loose photographs, most of which are contemporary copy prints of older photographs, with subjects dating from ca. 1870 - 1930 including Amy's mother, Sarah Woolworth; Amy as a child; William and Amy's home at Binscarth; two photographs of Dave Bradell's parents around the time of their marriage; and various other family members and friends.

The collection consists of: a colour photograph of Ms. Price, ca.1977, wearing the black and white evening gown worn to a formal cabinet dinner held in government house by Lieut. Gov. Bud Jobin; and a black and white photograph of Ms. Price with the Hon. Sterling Lyon, ca.1977.

This collection includes two photographs of Rosella and John Diduck on their wedding day in 1951. One features them cutting the cake and the other features Rosella and John with their attendants. Also included are wedding portraits of two other couples. One couple is identified as Alex and Tekla Prystayko, ca.1915 - 1917. The other is identified as William King and Bella Rohatinsky, ca.1920. The relationship of these couples to the donor is not known. The fifth photograph is a snapshot of Rosella Diduck, ca.1942, in which she wears a coat which has also been donated to the Museum.

With the exception of a large group portrait taken outdoors at Mt. Stephen House, Field, B.C., ca.1906, and the interior of an unidentified office, ca.1905, the photographs in this collection are all studio portraits of groups, couples and individuals and are likely relatives and family friends. Included are 1 carte de visite, 1 cabinet card and 13 others of various sizes. Many of the subjects are identified in notes on the back of the photographs. For most, however, their relationship with Ella Lockhart is not clear. Identified subjects include: Ella's mother, Mrs. J. Beckett; Ella's sister, Eva; an infant identified as Bertram Beckett, possibly a nephew; Robert Lockhart with a group of young men who are possibly classmates, ca.1903; and Robert Lockhart, ca.1906.