The collection consists of both Leal's own photographs and those he collected. There is a large number of portrait photographs which are arranged by surname but are undated. There are also a number of personal photographs which are listed by date (1937-1953) and topic and include such subject matter as the royal visit of King George to Kingston in 1939, some World War II activities, social events of the Canadian Locomotive company as well as collected photographs of air races, 1928-1930. There are also a number of commercial business photographs.
Fonds consists of ledgers, journals, lumber records, letter books, correspondence, contracts and agreements and miscellaneous material relating to the timber-making, rafting, forwarding, shipbuilding, towing and salvaging of the Calvin Company. There is also a collection of photographs relating to both family and business.
Fonds consists of a photo album of their time at Queen's, and especially Barbara Lemoine's time, as a nurse at Kingston General Hospital and subsequent nursing reunions.
The collection consists of postcards depicting scenes in Kingston, Napanee, Belleville, Brockville, Prescott and the Thousand Islands, as well as digital images of photographs of the Tannery staff, 1938, and the Kingston Penitentiary staff, ca. 1955.
The collection consists of a number of tintypes and other photographs collected by Herman Balesic over the years. The hand-tinted tintype portraits were mainly taken by J.D. Wallis, melainotype artist, who had an office on Market Square in Kingston, Ontario. The other portraits are examples of the work of other local photographers such as Spohn, Bell, Abbott and Sheldon and Davis.
Fonds consists of office files, including correspondence ("Greens" and "Blues"); subject files; reports; appointment books; Annual Reports of the Principal (1910-1968); meeting and committee records; notes and slides for visit to Asia (November 1997); a VHS copy of the Welcome Ceremony Address to the Class of 2006, by Tom Cavanagh (2 September 2002), plus footage of the 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. news coverage by local Kingston television station CKWS. Web archives for the Office of the Principal have also been captured, and are available for viewing through the Archive-It link.
This fonds consists of postcards of Kingston Street Railway streetcars in various locations including King Street at the top of the Penitentiary hill, Union and Alfred Streets, the streetcar barns, and Lake Ontario Park Zoo; ribbons from the Kingston Street Railway annual 'pic-nic'.