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The fonds consists of the records of the Alberta Society of Artists including meeting minutes of the Northern Branch, Southern Branch, annual general meeting, and the Provincial Council dating from the 1930s to 2000; membership and executive lists dating from 1931 -- 2000; objects, by-laws, and the charter of the society dating from 1931 -- 1996; financial records such as audits, receipts, and balances dating from the 1940s to 1990s, promotional materials related to exhibits such as brochures and pamphlets; materials documenting the work of the members of the ASA such as photographs, slides, negatives, and videos; correspondence dating from the 1930s to 2000; copies of the societies newsletter, Highlights, dating from 1948 to 1998; and oral history interviews conducted with members of the society dating from 1985 -- 1998.

The fonds consists of the transcript of the unpublished novel La grande épinettière. Récit du Nord-Ouest canadien, by Alex Michelet, and four b&w photographs taken on the trail to La Calmette and at the family farm in Alberta. The novel depicts the life of a young teacher who establishes herself in a small community at Grande Coulée (today, Big Coulee) at the beginning of the Twentieth century and the life of French homesteaders in Alberta.

The fonds consists of records relating to Alfred Blyth's personal and professional life and includes correspondence, postcards, receipts, letterhead, souvenir pamphlets, posters, catalogues from photographic exhibitions, calendars depicting the work of Alfred Blyth, certificates and awards, newspaper clippings, samples of touched up photographs, large format exhibition prints, publications using Blyth's work, films depicting various Alberta industries and events, travel films, and negatives depicting various people, views, buildings, animals, and scenes mainly in Alberta, including many portraits and some photographs of Alfred Blyth's home and studios dating from 1939 to 1974. The fonds also includes finding aids that Alfred Blyth created for the photograph collection and an oral history with Alfred Blyth recorded by Karl H. Kaesekamp in 1972.

The fonds consists of the publications The School of Magnetism and Electricity (1914), The Canadian Speller Book (1934), The Essentials of Health (1909), The Children of History (1910), Ireland (1904), The Science of Eugenics and Sex Life (1914), Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1918), The New Century Perfect Speaker (1901), Medicology (1903), The Great Controversy between Christ and Satat (1911), and Sheldon's 20th Century Etiquette (1901); two ledgers from W.F. Jennejohn's Motor Inn in Vulcan, Alberta; a postcard album; a photograph album belong to the Gibson family; a photograph album belonging to an unidentified family; an account book for the Bank of Hamilton; Julius Zang Balance Sheet; a Shank Lake Oils Ltd. Share Certificate; a Big Chief Oil Company Share Certificate; a copy of Waghorn's Guide; a copy of Nor'West Farmer; a notice of auction sale; a leaflet pertaining to automobiles; and correspondence related to Valentine's Day. The fonds dates from ca. 1890 to 1934.

The collection consists of films used in an itinerant picture show that toured through rural Saskatchewan, particularly through Ukrainian communities around Regina, during the 1930s-50s. The films include episodes of popular series such as Tarzan of the Apes, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, and Hopalong Cassidy; full-length genre films including Westerns and melodramas; comedy shorts; compilations of trailers for Hollywood features; episodes of Canadian Movietone News for 1950-51; a documentary about Inuit life in the 1940s; and two feature-length Ukrainian films that were made in North America. Both of these films were produced by Ukrainian-Canadian Vasile Avramenko. The first is entitled Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za dunaem) (Edgar L. Ulmer, 1938), while the second is entitled Marusia (Leo Bulgakov, 1938). These films are in the Ukrainian language with English subtitles, were specifically made for the expatriate Ukrainian community in North America, and are rare examples of Ukrainian commercial filmmaking in North America.
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Many of the films are fragments of larger works, but it is unclear if the complete films were ever shown as part of the travelling picture show.
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The collection also contains a poster for Cossacks in Exile and an original cardboard box used to house one of the film reels.

The fonds consists of copies sheet music for the piano dating from the 1920s to the 1970s of Canadian and Alberta folk songs, and popular music as well as sheet music written during classical, romantic, and baroque periods.

The fonds consists of images taken by Archibald Dunlap of Edmonton, Alberta, and various other locations across Alberta, including the Rockies, Seba Beach, Edson, and Lacombe.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides Armin Hecht took while on assignment from the Edmonton Journal dating from 1950s to the 1960s. Locations include: Alberta, Yukon, Europe, Eastern Canada, and Japan. The fonds also includes some publications of Armin Hecht's reporting dating from 1959-1987.

Fonds consists of photographs taken by the Art Craft Studio of individuals, groups and buildings in the Grande Prairie area.

The fonds consists material created and maintained by the Art Gallery of Alberta and includes programs from exhibitions held at the Gallery for the artists Harry Savage (1973) Glen Guillet (1973) and Chester and Bentham (1973). The fonds also includes artwork by artists featured at the Gallery including an oil painting by Thomas Adamson entitled "John A McDougall", an oil painting by T. George Gates featuring the C.N.R. Station in Edmonton, a watercolor painting by M.A. Halloway entitled "20 Below" featuring Rossdale and South Edmonton, an mixed media painting by Hilda Mitchell entitled "Indian Cemetery at Winterburn", a pastel by A. Ryland entitled "Bella Golden", an ink drawing by Dorothy Stevens showing the Chief Factor's house in Fort Edmonton. The fonds also contains a photo featuring the unveiling of the Father Lacombe Memorial in St. Alberta in 1929; a panoramic photo of the city of Edmonton dating from 1909; and a map of the city of Edmonton dating from 1956.