Material relating to the railway engineer Marcus Smith, his wife Anne Brock Smith, his sons T. Rhys Smith and Arthur G. Smith and other family members.
The album includes 142 portraits of the Marcus Smith, Sandford Fleming, Brock, Brophy, Street, and Chester families. The photographs were taken by professional photographers, who would appear to include Topley, Notman, and others. Notable are three group shots of identified individuals involved with the creation and construction of the InterColonial Railway. Only a handful of portraits were taken outside of Canada
There are also 87 views, which include images from various areas of Britain, Mexico, the United States and Switzerland as well as Canada. These include castles belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, views in the north of England, Durham cathedral, Redhill (Surrey), Earlswood (Surrey), Ely Cathedral and various views of Wales. There are several unidentified views of residences and flora in Mexico, as well as two views of the Castle of Chillon and Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Finally, there are a couple of views of Yosemite, in the United States. These are not attributed views and may have been cut down from larger images
Clarisse Smith file: Two views of a park in Victoria, B.C., c 1905. Photographer unidentified Three Not an photos of the Rockies, c 1904. A view entitled Burgess Mountain, Emerald Lake, by S.J. Thompson, c 1900 Ford Castle, Northumberland, 1867. Photographer unidentified. An unidentified view of a mountain. Adam Smith file: Four portraits of or including Adam Smith, late 19th / early 20th centuries. Two views of Reigate. T. Rhys (Tom) Smith file: Two views (including a snapshot) of his home at Cos Cobb, Connecticut. Two views including his wife Mayne. One snapshot of one of his dogs. Four loose photographs were also found in the album, and have been sleeved separately: A group portrait of some members of the Brock family, c 1885 by Jarvis, Ottawa Anne Clarice Smith in a wedding gown, 1899, by Topley, Ottawa Anne Clarice Smith, 1884, by Stanton, Toronto A cut-down autographed photograph of an unidentified man (the cutting removes part of the name, and date) c 1905.
