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Item consists of one photograph of two men on the shores of the Athabasca River. Cameron's caption on the verso of the photograph reads: "The River Athabasca presents 100 miles of rapids which are not navigable by steam. This rough water has to be traversed up and down stream in open boat by the H.B.C transport. This is where Serj Anderson R.N.W.M.P saved many men from drowning 8 years ago at time of Klondike rush."

Item consists of a photograph of a man sitting on a whale. Cameron's caption on the verso reads: "Meditations of a modern Jonah, 'it's safer outside.' - Picture taken at one of the British Columbia whaling stations."

Item consists of one photograph of young men on horseback. The photograph has been identified as the Winnipeg horse show, however this title appears to have been drawn from HP024568. The photographs likely depict the same event. A caption on the reverse reads: "How Canada trains her youth. The cubs of the lion [illegible] on horseback"

This is a toned, black and white card mounted print of one of the annual “Gems of British Columbia" composite works produced by photographer Hannah Maynard of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery. The description in the image reads “The ‘Gem’ Begonia. Happy New Year. 1892.”

Mrs. R. Maynard was an artist, as well as a photographer. She was known for producing experimental works that involved photographic techniques such as double and multiple exposures, photo-sculptures, as well as composite and cut-and-paste montage imagery. The "Gems of British Columbia" series features portrait montages of selected children, largely Anglo-European subjects as well as a number of sitters from early Chinese and Black pioneering families, photographed throughout the year. These were sent as New Year's greeting cards to clients from 1881 until about 1895. In the 1880s, these composite photographs, which sometimes incorporated photo sculptures (also known as “Living Sculptures”) were published annually in the trade publication St. Louis Photographer (also known as St. Louis and Canadian Photographer).

This composite photograph represents a particular style in the “Gems of British Columbia” series where miniature portraits of children and babies appear superimposed on objects – in this case a begonia plant. It appears to be the Gem of 1892.

The leaves of the plant contain groupings of tiny portraits that could represent another work(s) in the “Gems” series from a previous year. The inclusion and re-purposing of older montage works within the composite image created for the year is a characteristic common to some of the designs of Mrs. R. Maynard’s greeting cards. The words “The ‘Gem’ Begonia. Happy New Year. 1892” are written in varying sizes at the bottom of the image. Other designs in the series include children and babies superimposed on plants, shells, jugs, and an artist palette.

In addition, similar montages appear with portraits of children and babies framed within squares, stars, ovals, crowns, and diamond shapes which were also used as new year greetings as is the case for the “B.C. Gems 1894.”

Item consists of one photograph of seals. This photograph was presumably taken by Agnes Deans Cameron and is published on page 296 of "The New North."

Item consists of a photograph of Colin Fraser, a trader at Fort Chipewyan, sorting black fox pelts. The photograph was taken by Ernest Brown or C.W. Mathers and is numbered #417. The title provided above is hand-written in pencil on the verso of the photograph and may be a note relating to Cameron's published works. Additional titles are printed on the front of the photograph, including "furs from the far north" and "sorting the furs at Edmonton." A stamp on the verso reads: "With the complements of A.G. Harrison, Secretary Edmonton Board of Trade."

Item consists of a photograph of the title page and one hymn reproduced from a hymn book in Cree language. The original was printed on a hand press at Athabasca Landing by female missionaries of the English (Anglican?) church there. The photograph of the original was taken by Agnes Deans Cameron, presumably during her 1908 trip.

Item consists of one portrait photograph of James Cunningham, a Canadian politician in New Westminster.

A card mounted print of one of Richard Maynard’s field photographs taken during his trip to the seal rookeries of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea in 1892. Richard Maynard made several trips to Alaska for photographic purposes in 1879, 1882, 1887, and in 1892 to the Pribilof Islands where he documented sealing and seal rookeries

A card mounted print of one of Richard Maynard’s field photographs taken during his trip to the seal rookeries of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea in 1892.

Item consists of one photograph of Jean Baptiste and his children. The photograph was likely taken on Dean's 1908 voyage. Cameron has written the following on the verso: "Jean Baptiste Showan, the Cree pilot of the H.B.C's steamer on Peace River. He has made a white man's house but a teepee still looks good to him."

Item consists of one photograph of wheat, possibly taken during Agnes Deans Cameron's 1908 trip to Herschel Island documented in "The New North." Similar photographs of wheat fields appear in chapter 24.

Cameron has written on the verso of the photograph: "Canadian no. 1 hard wheat - the hall-mark of the world's wheat. Canadian prairie soil produces 40 bushels to the acre of this 'bread for the nations'." She has also included notation "Chap. 24, No 3" and perhaps intended it for publication. As Cameron took many of the photographs during her journey, it is presumed she is the creator of this photograph.

Item consists of one photograph of a pioneer between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing. A crossed out typed caption on the verso reads: "A 'stopping place' between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing. A Waldorf-Astoria on the edge of the prairie." An additional handwritten caption, presumably written by Cameron, reads: "A pioneer on the edge of things. The pioneers - they preach in front of the army and skirmish ahead of the church."

Item consists of a photograph of a small house with a family standing in the doorway. Cameron's caption on the verso reads: "Shack at Lesser Slave Lake, where the American, [Charles] King, was arrested by the Mounted Police, and subsequently convicted of the murder of his companion, Hayward, an Englishman. The case took 11 months to work up and cost the Canadian government $30,000 - 40 Indian witnesses were brought 250 miles to testify. Murderer was finally hanged."

The photograph is accompanied by a textual document (also assigned HP024554), which expands on what was written in the caption.