The fonds consists of material used, maintained and created by the Alberta Teachers' Association including correspondence and handbooks documenting the early activities of the Alberta Teachers' Alliance, a schedule of salaries, records pertaining to the activities of various locals of the association, issues of The ATA Magazine, reports, newspaper clippings, conference reports, blank letterhead, an ATA handbook, various government acts related to education, a 1934 Camrose Normal School yearbook, a photograph depicting the ATA general meeting in Edmonton, Alberta in April 1939, and a programme for the Second Edmonton District Alberta Teacher's Association Convention in 1968. This fonds has been arranged to include the following sous-fonds: Beaver Local Number (No.) 17 sous-fonds; Paradise Valley Sub-Local sous-fonds.