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Records include photographs of the Graves and Babcock families of Mount Salem, and a funeral card for Lloyd Graves (1824-1928). Item-level description is available.

Series consists of a copy of Evelyn McNeil's high school entrance certificate, intermediate certificate, secondary school diploma. Also included in this series are digital photographs of Mrs. McNeil.

Research files relating to schools in East Elgin. Include photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs.
Each file comprises a different chapter of the publication "Evolution of Schools: From Quill to Computer".

Photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs relating to schools in the Town of Aylmer.

Photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs relating to Bayham Township schools.

Photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs relating to Malahide Township schools.

Photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs relating to Yarmouth Township schools.

Photocopies, and other reproductions, of newspaper articles, school photographs, letters, yearbook entries and class photographs relating to South Dorchester Township schools.

Series consists of black and white and colour photographs, negatives and slides showing Elgin Co-Operative Services employees, Directors, facilities, equipment, products and services, and events, [191-?]-1988. Includes photographs by Scott Studio, Elgin Studio and St. Thomas Times-Journal, St. Thomas.

Series consists of approximately 100,000 photographic negatives in glass-plate, nitrate and cellulose-acetate form. Most negatives correspond to Murray Scott's tenure with the studio between 1911 and 1955. Included within the few early negatives that do exist is perhaps the most famous photograph to come from St. Thomas and Elgin County, the death of Jumbo the Elephant shortly after being hit by a Canada Southern Locomotive in 1885. The Scott Studio was the official or unofficial photographer for a number of organizations within the community, including Elgin County Council, Alma College, the YMCA, , the Elgin Regiment, local schools (such as St. Thomas Collegiate Institute) and the Technical Training School of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Railway photographs are particularly abundant within the fonds. The studio was commissioned to take photographs on behalf of the Pere Marquette Railway, Michigan Central Railway and New York Central Railway, including stations and crossings throughout the lines (and therefore extending throughout southern Ontario). The most abundant shots in this regards date to the 1930's and 1940's. The majority of the series (perhaps ninety per cent) consists of portrait photography of local weddings, special events and individuals.

Fonds consists principally of black and white portrait photographs of First World War soldiers, collected and maintained by Rodney Branch 525, Royal Canadian Legion. Most but not all portrait subjects had a personal or familial connection to the Village of Rodney, the Township of Aldborough and/or the West Elgin region. Fonds also includes two black and white photographs showing members of the 91st Overseas Battalion, C.E.F., assembling and marching in Rodney, Ontario, February 25, 1916. Fonds also includes a typescript note, 1989, on Branch letterhead, concerning the photographs previously framed and displayed at the Clachan Hall.

Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by Elgin Co-Operative Services, [191-?]-2007. Fonds is organized into the following series:
Photographs, [191-?]-1988
Miscellaneous Records, 1940-1984
Minutes, 1943-1998
Financial Statements, 1944-1995
Elgin Fruit Growers' Co-Operative Records, 1945-1961
Annual Reports, 1945-2007
Bond Issues, 1965-1975

These papers were collected as part of a comprehensive study into the life and career of Colonel Thomas Talbot, the early nineteenth-century settlement agent whose authority extended over much of what is now southwestern Ontario. The research was conducted by Guy St-Denis in various archival repositories with the intention of publishing a new biography of Talbot. After the project was discontinued, the photocopied documents were preserved in hopes of being useful to future scholars of Talbot and his settlement. The files were compiled ca. 1985-2003.
This collection is primarily comprised of secondary source material (reference copies). However, there are a number of original records, including newspaper articles, booklets and programmes, 1907-1977.

Fonds is comprised of photographs of early families that settled on Nova Scotia Line. These families include the Hankinsons, Haggans and Chutes. The fonds also includes general historical records such as memorial cards, correspondence and an early marriage registration, regarding these families.

Fonds contains research files compiled by local historian Paul Baldwin relating to architecture and architects in St. Thomas and Elgin County, principally related to the work of John T. Findlay and Neil R. Darrach with an emphasis on Darrach. Also includes information on David Kilpatrick, Elgin County's first architect, as well as research notes that informed Baldwin's "Legacy" column published in "Community News". Finally, fonds contains original architectural plans created in circa 1903 by Neil Darrach for the St. Thomas Public Library building, as well as a photocopy of a plan for the residence of R.A. Cook.

Series consists of student attendance registers for Townships of Malahide/Yarmouth Union School Sections 21/28 (Jaffa), 1891-1929.

Fonds contains records created or collected by the Fritz family relating to Alma College. Includes personal records belonging to Betty Smith, a student from 1941-1945, and Mary Louise Fritz, a student from 1954-1955. Also includes a photograph album and photographic negatives compiled by Bernice Fritz (nee Eilber), who was a student from 1928-1930. Fonds also contains miscellaneous documents and ephemera relating to Alma College, ca. 1932-2015.

Fonds consists of scrapbooks documenting the history of Wallacetown Minor Soccer from 1977 to 2000. Soccer teams were sponsored by the Wallacetown Optimist Club and mostly played against other teams from southwest Elgin. They also played against Optimist-sponsored soccer teams from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in an annual tournament which saw players from each town travel to the other in alternating years. The scrapbooks were likely compiled and maintained by Helen Van Brenk or other members of the Wallacetown Minor Soccer Association or the Wallacetown Soccer Mothers.

Fonds contains ledgers and account books maintained by George B. O'Malley for his threshing business in Wallacetown, Ontario, for the years 1870-1930.

Fonds contains notebooks and textbooks used by Earl A. Rawlins during his time at the RCAF Technical Training School in St. Thomas, Ontario, circa 1939-1945. The notebooks contain handwritten notes and diagrams.