This album, comprised of 115 pages on which 419 photographs are mounted or inserted, is a variety of photographers and subjects. Some of the different photographers include: J.D. Soper, A.E. Porsild, L.T. Burwash, L.D. Livingstone, R.S. Finnie, and O.S. Finnie, to name some. R.S. Finnie's works appear most frequently and are from 1928 - 1931. A whole section of the album appears to deal with his work filming the Inuit. There are also a lot of L.T. Burwash's work from the late 1920s.
The following places can be found in the album: Shingle Point; Lake Harbour; Pangnirtung, Baffin Island; Cape Dorset; Baillie Island; Bernard Harbour (waterfront); Wilmot Island, Coronation Gulf; Dead Man's Island, Coronation Gulf; N.W.T. medical station, Coppermine; Dundas Harbour, Devon Island; Robert Service's cabin, Dawson; Herschel Island; the Ramparts, Mackenzie District; Fort McPherson, N.W.T.; Fort Norman; Wood Buffalo Park; Carcross, Yukon; Bill Storr's trapping camp, Basil Bay; Five Finger Rapids, Yukon; Bowman Bay; Camp Kungovik, Bowman Bay; Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island; Canalaska Post; Chesterfield Inlet; Chipewyan, Alberta; Coppermine, Coronation Gulf; Bloody Falls, Coronation Gulf; Ellesmere Island; Fitzgerald, Alberta; Godhavn, Greenland; Great Bear Rock; Hay River; Fort Providence, N.W.T.; Rymer Point, Victoria Island; Fort Smith, N.W.T. (Waterfront); Whitehorse, Yukon; Senior Game Warden's headquarters, Fitzgerald.
The following events can be found in the album: Inuit landing on the coast near Gordon Bay; Inuit skinning ptarmigan; Inuit and Greenlanders on board the S.S. Beothic; manufacturing whale oil, Pangnirtung; hauling white whale hides; white whale oil in barrels, waiting shipment; Lon Chaney, Inuit, given a screen test; Ak-ah-malah kayaking; reindeer camp under construction; method of attaching sledge meter to instrument box; building new posts; drying seal skins, fish, white fox; Inuit skipping rope; Ikpuckhuak building an igloo; Kumaiak splitting fish; Inuit fishing practices; dance of the Copper Inuit; R.S. Finnie filming Inuit Copper dance; Native encampment, waiting treaty payment; building a dance house/igloo; delivering groceries by sled; crossing a tide crack; breaking and packing up camps; drinking tea on dog sled; backing fish nets; climbing a glacier; caribou swimming; hydraluicing.
The following objects can be found in the album: vegetation, flowers in the Arctic; R.C.M.P. detachments and posts; igloos; Inuit sailboat and schooners; noon observation station, Konkjatanak River; Inuit camps; sleds; traditional Inuit costume; Inuit caches; H.B.Co. fish house, Bloody Falls; iceberg; ornamented boots, Godhavn; residential schools and missions; Native birch bark canoe; Distributor, steamer; new water pump, 1930; snow houses for dogs; White Pass and Yukon route train tracks; H.B.Co. residences and trading posts; S.S. Beothic, vessel; map of blue goose breeding grounds; Ford snowmobile, 1928; Ptarmigan, schooner; G-CASM airplane; Marine Dept. wireless station, Coppermine; L.T. Burwash inscription on copper, 1929; wooden snow goggles; mining recorder's office, Mayo; old stone fox trap; advertisement for tailor shop in Sydney (1800 miles away); warden's cabin, Wood Buffalo Park; government sawmill and houses; Yukon Gold Co., Keno Hill; chute and holding pen, community corral; gypsum.
The following animals can be found in the album: types of seal; white fox, H.B.Co. farm; narwhal; musk-ox; types of birds and nests on Bowman Bay; arctic hare; sled dogs; caribou.
The following people can be found in the album: Kakivo, Cape Dorset; J.D. Soper; Tookan, injured Inuit boy with crutches; Nakoktilleak, Cape Dorset; Atotoo, Cape Dorset; Shappa, Cape Dorset; R.S. Finnie; Inspector J.A.H. Joy; Captain L.D. Morin; Ooga, Cambridge Bay; Natives from Chipewyan; L.T. Burwash; Dr. R.D. Martin; Lucy Kila, interpreter and assistant director; Dr. D.R. Martin; R.C.M.P. officers; Natives from Greenland; R.L. Gillespie ; Kormiak, chief medicine man, Coppermine district; Tik-taow-ya from Iglvali; Mirpho-too-it and family; Neet-ta-yook and family; Laplander families; Kidlak; Kayak-juak, Southampton Island; Inuit peoples; Panu-oo-li, Southampton Island; Ak-ko-A, Repulse Bay; J.A. McDougal and wife.
