This album, comprised of 106 pages on which 483 photographs are mounted, consists primarily of images of settlements in the Northwest Territories. There are aerial photos to go along with land photos of the development of the settlement. Particular buildings that are included in the photographs are the R.C.M.P. buildings, the missions, the cabins that the Natives live in, trading stores, and weather or meterological stations or mines, if there are any in the area in question. Photos by J.L. Robinson. There are two pages entitled "Indians", otherwise there are not many people in this album. The last few pages of the album are similar to the Indian ones; they are full of Inuit peoples. Many of these photographs have been copied already.
The following places can be found in the album: Peace River (aerial); Fort Fitzgerald; Fort Smith (with aerials); Rapids of the Drowned, Slave River; Fort Resolution (with aerials); Hay River (with panorama); Slave River (aerial); Mackenzie River delta, river system (aerial); Aklavik; Port Radium, Great Bear Lake; Port Radium mine; Yellowknife and area (with aerials); Great Slave Lake; Bell Rock, Northern Transportation shipyards; Hebron, Labrador; Sugluk, Québec; Padlei, N.W.T. and area (with aerials); Tavani, N.W.T. (aerial); Chesterfield, N.W.T. (aerial); Arctic Bay, N.W.T. and area; Prince Regent Inlet, N.W.T.; Cartwright, Labrador; Fort Providence (with aerials); Fort Simpson (with aerials); Fort Norman ; Canol Road; old Camp Canol; Norman Wells; Fort Good Hope; ramparts on Mackenzie River (aerial); Arctic Red River; Rae, N.W.T. (with aerials); Reliance (with aerials); Snowdrift, consists of 2 trading posts (aerial); Rocher River (aerial); Wolstenholme, Québec (with aerials); Port Harrison, Québec; Churchill, Manitoba (with aerials); Eskimo Point, N.W.T. (with aerials); Baker Lake, N.W.T.; Cape Dorset, N.W.T. (with aerials); Lake Harbour, N.W.T. (with aerials); River Clyde, N.W.T.; Fort McPherson.
The following events can be found in the album: stamping beaver pelts; forest fire (aerial); mending fish nets; unloading barges; trenching a newly discovered pitchblende vein; scraping caribou skins; U.S. Army unloading building material; playing ball on ice floes; tractor pulling freight; Inuit boys hunting.
The following objects can be found in the album: Hudson's Bay Company posts and buildings; R.C.M.P. barracks; Roman Catholic and Anglican missions; Native cabins; Norman Wells company residences; Northern Transportation Co. boats; Harrison's mink farm; sawmill, Aklavik; Con mine buildings; R.M.S. Nascopie; N.B. McLean, government ice breaker; grain elevators; Samuel Hearne inscription on rock; Inuit graves of piled rock; Inuit tents; caches; radio and meteorology stations; mission farms and gardens; refinery at Norman Wells; storage tanks; barges loaded with gasoline and fuel drums; R.C.A.F. airplane; trading stores; Distributor, vessel; Inuit schooners; Gladys Mosher, Newfoundland schooner; ice floes; icebergs; weather stations; sign written in Inuit syllabics; Nannuk, H.B.Co. schooner; pegged caribou skins.
The following people can be found in the album: W.D. Clark, trader and gardener; Natives; J.L. Robinson; Vitrekwa family; Abraham, Inuit trader; Constable Stan Byer; Inuit; G. LaBine; E. Bolger; Native children in Fort Norman hospital; Simonee and wife; Novolio, Inuit pilot.
