Photographic material depicts soldiers from Sarcee Military Camp at Calgary Industrial Exhibition, 1915; Brigadier-General E.A. Cruikshank, District Officer Commanding Military District No. 13, Calgary, Alberta; unidentified Canadian Lieutenant; Lt. Col J. McKinery; portrait of an unidentified Canadian Officer; Lt. Col. R.L. Boyle, 10th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Canadian Officer W.W. Nasmyth; views of Sarcee Camp, Alberta; and probable view of San Diego, California.
Also included is a photograph of four people standing in front of a rail fence with five human skulls on the ground in the forefront; a group of men engaged in archaeological excavation; a military group; Janet Carnochan, Canadian historical writer active with the Niagara Historical Society (inscribed verso: For Mrs. Cruikshank, Christmas 1915, from J.C.); General Sir William Dillon Otter at Queenston Heights, 21 June 1906; First Hospital, Niagara Falls, Ontario; portrait of General Ernest Alexander Cruikshank; portrait of Douglas Brymer, Dominion Archivist; Brigadier General E.A. Cruikshank, possibly with members of the Historic Sites and Monument Board, at a Historic Sites monument commemorating the massacre of the Huron and Jesuit mission villages of St. Louis, and St. Ignace; two views of a plantation in an unidentified tropical location; photographs from the estate of E.A. Cruikshank.
Series also includes a postcard album of views, scenes and architecture in Britain, France, Jamaica, U.S.A., and Canada; the Canadian Rockies; views of Ridgelow, Port Stanley, Lake Couchiching, and Orillia, Ontario; Montebello, Buckingham, Québec; Wolfville, Grandpré, and Blomidon, Nova Scotia; Calgary, and Banff, Alberta; Cowichan River, and a potlatch at Duncan, British Columbia; photographs from the estate of E.A. Cruikshank. Photographs are by Matt Park, Calgary, Alberta; Byron Harmon; J.E. Evans; Graham Photo; G.A. Brown; A. & G. Grant; H.J. Woodside; A.L. Hess, Calgary, Alberta; and unidentified photographers.