This collection consists of photographic copy negatives and copy prints taken by the British North American Boundary Commission along the 49th parallel during two separate survey periods, from 1860-1861 and from 1872-1875.

Sketches in pen, pencil, marker, pastels, etc., of trains and buildings in the Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington area. Scenes include: Kerns Grammar School (in 1923) and Montavilla School (in 1917) in Portland, Oregon; Oakville Church in Oakville, Oregon; and a streetcar in Vancouver, Washington.

Photographs of the launching of the escort carrier CVE-55 USS Alazon Bay (later the USS Casablanca), at the Kaiser shipyards, Vancouver, Washington. Includes images of Eleanor Roosevelt at festivities and christening the ship, of Henry Kaiser, and of Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family.