This album comprised of 115 pages on which 774 photographs are mounted, mainly consists of landscape shots and a survey of the various vegetation, flowers, trees, and other biological specimens found in Alaska and the Northwest Territories. Photos by A.E. Porsild and R.S. Finnie.
The following places can be found in the album: Healy, Alaska; Nenani valley, Alaska; Tenana, Alaska; Unalakleet, Alaska; Mackenzie Delta; Campbell Lake; Killagazuit; Aklavik; Fort Good Hope; Resolution; Wood Buffalo Park; Government Hay Camp; Fort George; Charlton Island; Unalaska, Alaska; Elephant Point, Alaska; Baker Lake, N.W.T.; Kazan River; Shingle Point; Eskimo Lake; views from the Hudson's Bay Railway, Manitoba; Keewatin District; Golofnin, Alaska; Diomede, Alaska; Bering Strait; Pullen Point, Alaska; Beechey Point, Alaska; Peel Channel; Dease Bay, Bear Lake; Bush Island; Fort Franklin; Mount Charles; Hay River; Moose Factory, Ontario; Abitibi River; Albany; Churchill, Manitoba (panoramas); Fort Prince of Wales; Chesterfield, N.W.T.; Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa; Reindeer Station; Dease Bay, Bear Lake; views from the Alaska R.R.
The following events can be found in the album: breaking trail with dog sled; sawing wood; shipping reindeer meat; constructing main building at reindeer station; entertaining children at Catholic Mission; ice fishing; silver fox caught in trap; fawning season for reindeer herd.
The following objects can be found in the album: experimental farm; Native cemeteries and graves; Yukon riverboat; types of vegetation; types of sleighs; Prince of Wales Theatre, Churchill; meal of whale skin and seal blubber; candled ice; limestone formations; camps; Hudson's Bay Company trading posts; Native schooners and canoes; types of trees; interior of Roman Catholic church at Good Hope; vegetables; Missions; beaver dams; bird nests; cairn of caribou skulls; fish wheel; sled with sail; S.S. Distributor; Norwegian whaling station; graffiti at Fort Prince of Wales; Inuit cairns; post glacial boulders; M.S. Margaret A; ruins of Fort Confidence; sandstone formations; caches; Star, schooner; R.C.A.F. planes; Inuit tent rings.
The following animals can be found in the album: yak; types of reindeer; dog teams, pack dogs; Canada geese; ptarmigan; types of fish (trout etc) caught for food; pack horses; white fox, H.B.Co's fox farm; least auklets (birds).
The following people can be found in the album: F.P. Williams, trader; L.J. Palmer, U.S. Biological survey; Native and Inuit peoples; reindeer herders; Inspector Kemp, R.C.M.P; R. Roach; Bob Bergstrom; A.W. Boland and family; V.W. West, H.B.Co. District Manager; Mikkil and Anna Pulk and family, herders; Mathis and Inger Hatta and family, herders; Aslak and Sussanna Tornensis and family, herders. These three families are Laplanders; Siberian Natives; Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Porsild; R.T. Porsild (Bob); Jim Allen and wife; bear hunters, with victim; J.A. McDougal, District agent; Native children at Mission schools; priests, brothers, and nuns at Missions; Jimmy Soldat, chief of Bear Lake Natives; B.C. Furlong; Constable Walker with prisoner "David"; Mr. and Mrs. R.S. Finnie; Louis Brockhaye; Isaac Hattah, chief herder of Lomen Reindeer Company.
Print 3286-1928-A.E.P. is missing. "Children at R.C. Mission, Aklavik and R.T. Porsild, Jan. 1928" "See neg. in box P-3519"
