This file contains photographs of important figures in the history of McGill, predominately past principals.

This file contains 4 photos of a convocation held on the lower campus on 28 May, 1952, including a photo of F. Cyril James in procession, a photo of Pricess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip driving through a crowd of students on lower campus during their royal visit to McGill on 30 October, 1951, and a photo of students in formal wear prior to the McGill Medical Ball on 20 March, 1953.

This file contains photos of artefacts including jewelry, clothing, tools, and sculptures from various cultures, including Micmac, Inuit, and European cultures.

Series consists chiefly of architectural photography from Italy and France, featuring building exteriors and exteriors and details such as doorways, crests, and capitals. Photographs are mostly undated. One file contains photographs of public buildings in the United States and one photograph of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police garage in Montreal Quebec.

This file contains a photograph of a group of people gathered on the steps of Moyse Hall, with Ramsay MacDonald, E.W. Beatty, and Sir Arthur Currie at the centre in academic formal dress, following the ceremony in which MacDonald was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws.

This file contains a photograph of men in military uniforms arranged in rows.

This file contains a photograph of a man in uniform, probably Fairlie Candlish.

This file contains a photograph of Dean D.L. Mordell and Gerald V. Bull with "Martlet I" and two other rockets with a diagram of the Earth's atmosphere. The rockets were used in a project to launch atmospheric probes in Barbados using a refurbished military rocket launcher.