Collection consists of photographs depicting: port quarter view of H.M. Schooner, tentatively identified as H.M.S. Tecumseth; port bow of H.M.S. Tecumseth; starboard bow of H.M.S. Tecumseth; H.M.S. Tecumseth in board aft from the port side showing frames, ceiling, and keelson; in board, 70-foot Tecumseth looking aft showing frames ceiling and keelson as well as iron fastening; detail of scrarfed keelson and iron straps to strength the step of the mast of Tecumseth; stern post and apron, H.M.S. Tecumseth, showing the two lower iron strap gudgeons; H.M.S. Tecumseth showing two of the foremast starboard chains; a portion of the starboard topside of H.M.S. Tecumseth (broken off in salvage operations) showing two of the main mast chains and a lead scupper; forefoot of H.M.S. tecumseth, port side, showing the iron strengthening arrangement where the stem is joined to the keel; the part of Penetanguishene Bay adjacent to the old naval dockyard; from the old dockyard jetty looking across Penetanguishene Bay, Magazine Island; stern view of H.M.S. Tecumseth, raised from Penetanguishene Bay, Ontario, September 1953; ship models built by Admiral Pullen; views of models of Colonial batteaux of 1776, used for transport on the St. Lawrence River; portraits of naval officers including George F. Hastings, Lewis Anthony Beaumont, Charles Hispington Glover Crawford, Arthur Farquhar, Algernon McLennan Lyons, Henry St. Leger Bury Palliser, Frederick Stephenson, and Henry William Bruce; naval staff at Esquimalt, British Columbia; portrait of Admiral Sir Allen Thomas Hunt, R.N., Commander-in-charge for station duties on the west coast of Canada, 1905-1906;
a Labrador whaler; scale model of the Tancook whaler built on Tancook Island, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, 1738; mural painting of the Royal Engineers insignia on the wall of a small bunker in Point Pleasant Park, near the entrance to the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron; an early view of the Halifax dockyard, ca. 1867; H.M.S. Niobe; Halifax and the harbour; scale model of a bateau used in Canada during the American Revolution; model of a flat bottom boat of the 18th century for landing troops; portrait of Vice Admiral Arthur Fanshave; portrait of Admiral John Crawford Wilson; Sir Thomas Harvey; unveiling of memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the officers and men of the U.S.S. Chesapeake, who died there following it's battle with the Shannon in 1813.
Reproductions depict: a work entitled "Halifax, Nova Scotia"; a portrait of Alexander Jack, a surgeon with the Royal Navy; a portrait of Lieutenant James Cragg, R.N.