The series consists of photographs which help document the life and activities of Barnabas de Laky. The subjects depicted include students at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Pazmany Peter University, Budapest, Hungary, 1936-1937, photo by B. Brunhuber; group photo of members of the Hungarian Permanent Foreign Trade Delegation, Berne, Switzerland, 1943-1944, B.R. de Laky is eighth from left in rear row; activities of Barnabas, Maria and Monika de Laky, Switzerland and Italy, 1943-1951; views of Niagara Falls, Ont., August 1952; camping trips of the de Laky family in Algonquin Park, Ont., 1954-1958; R.C.M.P. drumhead service, Ottawa, Ont., April 1959; a camping trip of the de Laky family in Hither Hills State Park and Long Island, N.Y., July-August 1959; a camping trip of the de Laky family to North Bay, Sudbury and Georgian Bay, Ont., 1960.
Photographs also include views of Quebec City and of Université Laval, Quebec, 1961; views of the Thousand Islands, Ont., 1963; photographs of personnel of the Research and Statistics Branch, Department of Labour, Ottawa, Ont., ca. 1957-1968, B.R. de Laky is at left of rear row, photo by Newton Photographic Associates Ltd.; B.R. de Laky and other members of the Canadian delegation attending the General Assembly of the International Society of Statisticians and Actuaries, Paris, France, October 1966; Canadian delegation attending the XV General Assembly of the International Society of Statisticians and Actuaries, Washington, D.C.; Christmas celebration at the de Laky home, Ottawa, Ont., 1967; students of the graduating class of 1933, Verboczy Istvan Real Gymnasium, Budapest, Hungary, taken at the time of their fiftieth reunion, 30 April 1983; and portraits and snapshots of Barnabas, Maria and Monika de Laky, and other members of the de Laky family and friends, ca. 1925-1983.
The series also contains an original drawing and copies of the de Laky heraldic emblem.