Fonds consists of the following series: National Office; General Elections; Advisory Council and National Council Meetings; National Conventions, Meetings and Conferences; National Federation of Liberal Women/Women's Liberal Federation; Youth Wing of the Liberal Party; Reference material; Standing Committee; and the Regional organization.
Fonds also contains photographic materials. 24 photographs, ca. 1900-ca. 1970, are portraits of members of the Liberal Party of Canada: Walter Smith, L. Antonio Thomas, Percy Smith, Douglas Stewart, Ross Wicker, Gordon Blair, Don Jamieson, and J.J. Kinley Jr., and Liberal Prime Ministers Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Lester B. Pearson, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. A copy of one photographic portrait, 1906, of Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier. 6,271 photographs, ca. 1948-1968, depict leadership conventions of the Liberal Party of Canada, 1948-68; various aspects of the activities of the Liberal Party of Canada; portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Hons. W.L. Mackenzie King, Louis S. St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre E. Trudeau and other members of the Liberal Party of Canada. 800 photographs, ca. 1948-1968, depict the Hon. Louis Stephen St. Laurent with Young Liberals, 1948-1958; activities of Young Liberals; portraits of Hon. Lester Bowles Pearson, 1948-1968; with some photographs by Capital Press. 115 photographs, ca. 1948-1968, are portraits of Liberal Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King, Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau; with some photographs by Yousuf Karsh. 2,945 photographs, ca. 1950-ca. 1960, relate to various aspects of the Liberal Party of Canada. 67 photographs, 1950-1965, are related to various conventions of the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada, the national executive of that organization and some members. Eight photographs, ca. 1950-ca. 1969, are portraits of presidents of the Liberal Federation of Women of Canada, including Mrs. B. Earle MacDonald, Mrs. J.O. Asselin, Hon. Mary Kinnear, Mrs. A.L. Caldwell, Mrs. C.J. Embree, and Mrs. Cecile O'Regan; portraits of Hon. Cairine Wilson and Mrs. Jeanne R. St-Laurent. One photograph, 1968, depicts John Napier Turner, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in that period. 75 photographs, 1968, depict various aspects of the Liberal Party Leadership Convention, Civic Centre, Ottawa, Ontario. One filmstrip with 411 frames, 1968-1972, relates to various aspects of the Liberal Leadership Convention, Civic Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, 1968; views showing how the Liberal Party conducts a campaign; campaign clinics, how a candidate is expected to conduct his or her campaign, etc.. 18 photographs, 1969, depict speakers at the Harrison Liberal Conference, 1969: C.A. Sheppard, A.C. Parks, Bradfield, A. Golden, T. Bernes, E. Reid, M. Hurtig, P. Johnston, W. Rowe, T. Brewis, R. Rohmer, M. Robert, D. Dunton, A. Harvey, E. Bayda, L. Hertzman, P. Jewett; with photographs by Studio Hamilton, Peter of Holland, Davidson Studios, Audio Visual Services, Dept. of University of Guelph, McDermid Studios Ltd., Newton Photographic Associates, A. Larose, Van's Studio Ltd., Wamboldt-Waterfield, Heenan Studio, Toronto Star Syndicate. 115 photographs, 1970, are portraits of the Liberal Cabinet Ministers, Robert Andras, Stanley Ronald Basford, Edgar J. Benson, Jean Chrétien, Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Coté, Jack Davis, C.M. Drury, Jean-Eudes Dubé, Alastair W. Gillespie, Jean- Pierre Goyer, Herb Gray, Don Jamieson, Arthur Laing, Otto E. Lang, Donald MacDonald, Allan J. MacEachen, Bryce Mackasey, Patrick Morgan Mahoney, Jean Marchand, Paul Martin, John C. Munro, Martin Patrick O'Connell, Horace Andrew Olson, Gerard Pelletier, Jean Luc Pépin, James Armstrong Richardson, Mitchell William Sharp, Robert Douglas George Stanbury, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and John N. Turner; the photographs by Photo Features, Ottawa, Ontario. 458 photographs, 1972-1986, relate to and include the general election; portraits including a list of candidates accross the country campaigns of 1972, 1979 and 1980; Liberal candidates for 1979 general election, the portraits including a list of candidates accross the country; Platform Committee meeting, 1980; portraits of Iona Campagnolo, 1984-1986; portraits include Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, John Turner, Marc Lalonde, Jean Chrétien, Gilles Lamontagne, Barney Danson, Jeanne Sauvé, and various members of the Liberal Party of Canada; with photographs by Photo Features Ltd, United Press Canada, Jean-Marc Carisse, Sharon Godfrey, Carl Bigras, Drummond Photos, Windsor Star Photo.
Fonds also contains sound recordings documenting convention proceedings, speeches, talks, debates, radio and television messages, dictation, campaign songs, and interviews of members of the Liberal Party of Canada. Documents have been divided into a media specific series entitled Sound recordings.
Also included in fonds are moving images documenting election campaigns, television series sponsored by the Liberal Party of Canada, party conventions, and documentaries. Material has been divided into a media specific series entitled Moving images.
Fonds also contains other graphic materials. Two lithographs, 1896-1897, are entitled: The Liberal cabinet of Canada, 1896; and Gladstone and Laurier at Hawarden Castle, July 10, 1897, the latter by W. Raphael. 33 drawings consist of 29 cartoons by Chambers, Halifax Chronicle, ca. 1956; three portraits, n.d., by Wilfred Long; and one portrait, n.d., of Louis St. Laurent. 12 posters, ca. 1960-ca. 1973, relate to the Liberal Party of Canada. Four campaign posters, 1968-1979, predominant 1979, depict the candidates Don Jamieson and George Billard. Two reproductions, ca. 1968-ca. 1972, are of drawings of "Pierre E. Trudeau" by Irma Coucill. Nine drawings are designs for posters, 1972, entitled The land is strong (four versions), Go Trudeau (two versions), National unity, Pierre E. Trudeau, Design for Liberal convention dress. 125 posters, 1972, relate to the federal election of that year. Six copies of a 1974 Liberal campaign poster depict Pierre Elliot Trudeau on a red background, by an unknown artist and printed by Mail-O-Matic Printing, Ottawa. 18 posters, 1984, are from the Liberal Leadership Campaign of that year.
Fonds also contains campaign buttons. 15 buttons, 1963-1972, are from federal elections and from Liberal Leadership campaigns. 11 buttons, 1972-1974, predominant 1974, are from the Liberal campaigns of the elections of those years. There is also an essay (prototype, "mock-up"), ca. 1968-ca. 1972, for a button depicting Trudeau in 3/4 profile.
Fonds also contains three maps, consisting of one showing Federal Electoral Districts, dated 1966 with minor revisions dating 1968; and two maps outlining the results of the 30th and 31st Federal Elections of 1974 and 1979.
