Collection consists of two photograph albums and assorted loose photographs taken by J.G. Parks; O.B. Buell; J.A. Brock; Charles Horetzky; Mitchell; and Boorne & May.
Photos showing street scenes and various scenes in and around Montreal, and in Ottawa. Included are the following: Montreal from the Mountain; Montreal from St. Helen's Island; Montreal Bank and Post Office; Albert Building (indication of G.F. Hartt's Office); Young Men's Christian Association Building; Victoria Square (indication of G.F. Hartt's Office); Mount Royal Park; Notre-Dame Church; St. Peters Cathedral; St. James Street; McGill College; Grey Nunnery; Wesleyan Theological College; Dominion Square; Jesuit Church; Christ Church Cathedral; Bonsecours Market; Victoria Bridge; Hotel Dieu and General Hospital; Sir Donald Smith's Residence; Linton's Residence; Beaugrand Residence; Lachine Rapids; Indian pilot Baptiste; Mount Royal Cemetery; ice jam on the St. Lawrence River; Landsdown slide; Toboggan slide; Jacques Cartier slide; Canadian Hunter's Cabin; Peel and Metcalfe Streets in winter; ice bridge on the St. Lawrence; Ice Castles from 1883 to 1887; Skating Carnival composite; Curling Match composite; Wellington Street and St. Ann's Market during the flood; City Hall, Montreal; Custom House Square, Montreal; De Salaberry Monument; Fort Chambly; Caughnawaga Indians; Rideau and Chaudiere Falls, Ottawa; Parliament Buildings, Ottawa; City Hall, Montreal; Custom House Square, Montreal; De Salaberry Monument, Fort Chambly; Victoria Square.
Photographs depicting: Indian Chief Whitecap; Indian Chief Pi-a-pot; Indian Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot Nation; Sundance Ceremony; Indian Industrial Schools at Regina and Battleford, Saskatchewan; Fort Qu'Appelle Industrial School, Northwest Territories; St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, Middlechurch, Manitoba; St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, High River, Alberta; group of Indian children, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Blackfoot Indians; the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Homes, Garden River Reserve, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; Fort Edmonton, Alberta; group photo including Rev. J.W. Tims and Rev. W.R. Haynes; group photos of Indians with teachers in front of various Indian Industrial Schools; Stoney Indians at Morley, Alberta; Washakada Indian Home, Elkhorn, Manitoba; at the Elbow of the North Saskatchewan River; various portraits of Indians dressed in European style clothes.
