Fonds consists correspondence to and from Florence Tait and her family, student friends, and future husband, Stuart Schofield, while attending Queen's University at Kingston, and on travels to Europe and the Far East; subject files; diaries; and photographs and photo albums compiled by both Florence (Tait) and Stuart Schofield during their time as students at Queen's, with images of many interior and exterior shots of boarding houses, such as 44 Stuart Street; classmates; campus scenes with buildings and other University events such as the visist by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught; Kingston and district scenes, including Macdonald Park with the Golden Lion and tulip bed, the waterfront (the "Old Ontario Strand"), S.S. Harmonic and Huronia; scenes in Western Canada in such locales as Winnipeg, Strathcona (Edmonton), Banff, the Geological Survey in the Rockies, Kootenays, and other British Columbia interior locations, aboriginal people at Illes des Prairies; geological consulting trips to Mexico and China; earthquake in Yokahama, Japan; summer excursions around Ontario, and to the West to Bulyea and Romford, Saskatchewan; Lake Superior; Quebec City; the Parliament Buildings and Library, and other views in Ottawa; the Canadian Expeditionary Force; visits to Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and Vancouver Island. A number of the photos have also been hand coloured.
