The photographs document his life at Oxford as a student and his continuing involvement with the university as a Rhodes Scholar and alumnus. They include 45 b&w prints: 1 photograph depicting Morrison with J. Robert Beatlie (d. Jan. 6, 1987) at Winnipeg Golf Course, September 1930, "on route to Oxford as Rhodes Scholars" (Beatlie later became Deputy-Governor for the Bank of Canada, frominscription on the back); 1 photograph depicting Tuxedo Park in Winnipeg, 1930; 1 photograph depicting New Brunswick-Maine border near St. Stephen, NB, 1930; 4 photographs depicting various sites in Scotch Ridge, NB, 1930 (inscriptions on the back), including 3 views of his father's (Frederick A. Morrison) family farm, and 1 view of a parish church with surrounding graveyard; 8 photographs depicting various personalities and activities in and outside of Oxford during 1930-33 (inscriptions on the back); 1 photograph depicting Morrison with Annette Day, Oxford, 1931; 10 photographs depicting views taken on a trip to Italy, April 1931 (inscriptions on the back), including Sicily, Venice, Rome, Pompeii, and Naples; 1 photograph depicting Ron M. Macdonald of Winnipeg at Castle Mondello near Palermo, Sicily, Spring 1931; 1 photograph depicting a street view of St Symphonien (?), across Loire from Tours, June 1931; 1 photograph depicting a city view of Autun, France, August 7, 1931; 1 photograph depicting the Schwartzwald region near Freiburg-im-Breisgau, August 22, 1931 (more detailed inscription on the back); 1 photograph depicting a view of the Windsor Castle (inscription on the back); 2 photographs depicting the Irish Guard at the Windsor Castle, 1931-32 (inscription on the back); 1 photograph depicting the "Bull Nose" 1923 Cowley automobile, Oxford, Summer 1932; 1 photograph depicting Morrison at a Soviet day nursery on the outskirts of Moscow, August 1932; 1 photograph depicting Morrison at a Worker's Day Nursery near Leningrad, Jul.-Aug.1932; 1 photograph depicting Nancy Jones in Casa Forteza, Puerto de Pollensa, Majorca; 2 photographs depicting different views of Paris, 1932/33; 1 photograph depicting Morrison at his grandparents' home, Milltown, Maine, September 1930; 1 photograph depicting Morrison and Sam Colburn, Puerto del Pollensa, Majorca, January 1, 1933 (photo: Ella Barnett); 2 photographs depicting Morrison and his wife Patricia LeMoine FitzGerald Morrison, Biggin Hill Airfield, Kent, England, July 1964 (inscriptions describing the occasion on the back); and 2 identical photographs depicting Morrison, Robert Levens, John Charles Pirie, Benjamin Cushing Duniway on the occasion of taking their M.A. degrees at Oxford, June 1964 (inscriptions on the back).
The 9 colour photographs include four colour snapshots of the presentation by Hugh Morrison and Mary-Lucille Getchell, 23 June 1994, of a volume of poems by Edmund Blunden with an original poem handwritten by Blunden within the book to the library at Oxford; 4 dark grey cards with inserts of 4 colour photographs documenting the Rhodes Scholar reunion event with Morrison and British Royalty present, including Prince Philip, Oxford, June 1983 (along with an inscription on a strip of paper, photos by: B. J. Harris); and 1 colour photograph depicting Morrison and Martin C. Harris, an ice-hockey historian, during the 100th Anniversary Ice-Hockey Match Oxford vs. Cambridge, March 5, 2000.
