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This series consists of aerial photographs taken of the City of Edmonton and surrounding areas. The series has been arranged into the following subseries:

• Subseries 1 - 1924 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 2 - 1930 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 3 - 1943 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 4 - 1944 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 5 - 1948 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 6 - 1949 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 7 - 1950 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 8 - 1952 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 9 - 1954 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 10 - 1957 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 11 - 1958 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 12 - 1962 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 13 - 1965 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 14 - 1967 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 15 - 1969 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 16 - 1971 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 17 - 1974 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 18 - 1976 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 19 - 1978 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 20 - 1980 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 21 - 1984 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 22 - 1986 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 23 - 1988 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 24 - 1990 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 25 - 1992/93 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 26 - 1995 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 27 - 1997 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 28 - 1998 Aerial Photographs
• Subseries 29 - 2002 Aerial Photographs

This series contains artwork that was collected by the Archives as discrete items, or artwork from that collection which has no provenance.

In the 1940s, the Archives and Landmarks Committee, together with the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timer’s Association, began keeping subject based clippings files. Another collection of clippings files was started by the Legislative Library, donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta and then transferred to the Archives and Landmarks Committee. When it was formed in 1971, the City of Edmonton Archives took over the Committee’s textual collections, including the clippings files. The Archives continued to add to the clippings files until 2017.

Over the years, diverse arrays of materials ranging from original documents to publications were kept in these files. This type of cataloguing was common, however archival best practice has moved away from this method. Many archives no longer maintain clippings files and when they do, they generally contain only published materials.

Currently, there are three distinct types of material located within the City of Edmonton Archives Clippings Files:

• Clippings: Materials removed, or clipped, from a larger piece, usually a newspaper or periodical.

• Ephemera: Materials, usually printed documents, created for a specific, limited purpose, and generally designed to be discarded after use. Examples include advertisements, tickets, brochures, and receipts.

• Discrete Item: An item, usually unique and original, that is not part of a larger body of material (e.g., a fonds or collection). Repositories sometimes acquire materials that do not form a part of a larger fonds, collection or series. Context of creation, accumulation and use may or may not be known and, even if they are known, no other materials of the same provenance may be held by the repository. At the City of Edmonton Archives some discrete items were once part of a larger body and were moved to a clippings file.

This series consists of over 26,000 clipping files. The series has been divided into the following subseries:

• Subseries 1: Biography clippings files
• Subseries 2: City clippings files
• Subseries 3: General clippings files

This series consists of thematic and format-based finding aids created by the Archivists, or students and volunteers under their direction, to assist researchers looking for material related to specific subjects across collections (MS fonds or RG [government] records collections) or materials in various formats of records (i.e. publications or posters). There is usually an informative essay providing context about the subject. The material may be divided into subsections in a table of contents to assist the researcher in selecting the kinds of material desired for their search. Each finding aid will be as comprehensive as possible at the time it was created - but other material may be discoverable in the archives as more material is processed or added to collections.

The series consists of Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Chas. E. Goad Co. Fire Insurance Plan for Edmonton in 1913, and a copy of a ca. 1925 Fire Insurance Plan for Edmonton. Fire Insurance Plans were created to document the types of buildings and types of materials used in an area, which in turn informed how insurance companies issued rates. The keyplan for each year can be used to narrow the area in which a specific location can be found to a volume, and then an individual map.

This series contains maps that were found in the collection of the City of Edmonton Archives. The maps had no provenance, and were therefore combined into a single series.