This 11 3/8" × 8 1/4" photo album of 40 leaves/80 pages contains 210 photographs. The photographer was likely an engineer, his lens was regularly focused on the expansion of modernized infrastructure, energy, and mining locations.
The earliest images are of engineered tunnels for the city of Montreal, specifically the Mount Royal Tunnel for the Canadian Royal Railway. This tunnel now is the third longest tunnel in all of Canada. The plan and profile sketches of the tunnel as well as sketched of the muck handling drill carriage are on view at the beginning of this album.
More underground infrastructural photographs contained here include images of the steam shovel crew at the Gayosa Ave. Tunnel in Memphis, Tennessee in 1915. Here, black and white laborers appear dirty and exhausted by their hard work. There are a few instances of tvcoon P.R. images of well-dressed men in suits sitting and standing in the underground tunnels. On the other side of the project in Memphis, was a similar project in Helena, Arkansas, pictured here.
This captain of industry chased mining projects in Coalinga, California, Mexia, Texas, and projects in Montana at the Missouri-McKce Mill and the Clear Creck Consolidated Mining Company. Other projects include: the Capital Prize Mine in Colorado, the Kelly Gold Mine in Red Mountain, California, the Bureau Research Labs in Boulder City, Nevada, an "asbestos prospect: in Sims Valley, CA, and the Cactus Mine in Mojave, California. Additionally, other infrastructural projects include the Mattie Mine and Power Plant, and the Boulder Dam (now known as the Hoover Dam) in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Nevada and Arizona.
While the majority are held to the page by corner tabs, fourteen 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" images are loose and tucked into the end page. Otherwise, photographs range in size from 2 1/2" y 2" to 9 1/2" y 7 1/8". There are 10 smaller photographs that are missing, indicated by empty corner tabs.