This volume contains carte de visite portraits, mostly of Francis Parkman's daughters, Grace Parkman (later Coffin) and Katherine Scollay Parkman (later Coolidge). The photographs were taken ca. 1860-1877 by Howard A. Richardson, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple, all of Boston, Mass., among others.

This volume contains carte de visite and cabinet card portraits, mostly of members of the Parkman and Cordner families. Subjects include Francis Parkman (1823-1893) and Catherine Scollay Bigelow Parkman, as well as John Cordner (1816-1894), husband of Francis's sister Caroline Hall Parkman, and their three daughters, Mary Agnes Cordner, Caroline Parkman Cordner, and Elizabeth Parkman Cordner, among many others. Most of the photographs are unidentified, and the portraits may also include those of family friends, as well as American and European public figures. Most of the photographs were taken by Canadian photographers, including William Notman.

This volume contains photographs of various members of the families of Francis Parkman and Katherine Scollay Parkman Coolidge, taken ca. 1860-1889. Subjects include Francis Parkman, Catherine Scollay Bigelow Parkman, Charles F. Atkinson, Grace Parkman (later Coffin), and various members of the Cordner family, as well as Katherine Scollay Parkman Coolidge and her children. Photographers include John Adams Whipple, James Wallace Black, James Notman, and Allen & Rowell, all of Boston, Mass., and various French photographers.

This volume contains snapshot photographs taken ca. 1900-1910, mostly of unidentified children, probably descendants of Francis Parkman. The photographer is unknown. The last page of the album is inscribed, "E. McA. D."

This volume contains carte de visite portraits collected by John Eliot Parkman, brother of Francis Parkman. Most of the subjects of the photographs are unidentified but include Civil War soldiers, many of whom possibly served with John Eliot Parkman. All of the photographs were taken between ca. 1860-1864. Photographers include Black & Batchelder, James Wallace Black, and John Adams Whipple, all of Boston, Mass., among others. The inside cover of the album is inscribed with the initials, "J. E. P."

This volume contains carte de visite portraits, mostly of various American and European public figures. The photographs were taken between ca. 1862-1875, and most are unidentified. The portraits may also include photographs of various Parkman family members and friends. Photographers include William Notman of Montreal, as well as John Adams Whipple and James Wallace Black of Boston, Mass., among many other American, Canadian, and European photographers.

Two fold-out volumes containing carte de visite portraits of Native Americans, collected by Francis Parkman. Titles listed below in quotation marks are either those printed commercially on the cartes de visite or are inscriptions hand-written on the front of the photograph.

This subseries contains daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits and one view, collected by Francis Parkman.

This subseries contains portrait photographs of various members of Francis Parkman, his daughters, and other Parkman family members, as well as some of Parkman's friends and colleagues.

This subseries contains various views of places of importance to Francis Parkman, mostly of wilderness and frontier living in the United States and various cities in Canada. There are also some views of various places in Europe. Photographers include James C. Stodder; Benjamin Franklin Upton of St. Anthony, Minn.; and William Notman of Montreal.

This subseries contains loose photographs of portraits of Utes and other unidentified Native Americans, cartes de visite depicting "Red River Half-Breeds" of Minnesota, and one albumen photograph of a pueblo in Taos, New Mexico. All of these photographs were taken ca. 1860-1870 and were collected by Francis Parkman. Includes one hand-colored tintype and a note in Francis Parkman's hand describing his relationship to some of the Native American subjects in these photographs.

This subseries contains loose photographs of Francis Parkman and Charles Haight Farnham during the month they spent at Farnham's camp on the Batiscan River, Lake St. John in Quebec in June 1886. These photos were taken by both Parkman and Farnham.

Loose photographs of reproductions of European artwork, as well as of artifacts of historical significance such as the "Lenape Stone," a supposed Native American pictographic artifact that was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1872. These photographs were most likely collected by Francis Parkman and his sister, Eliza Willard Shaw Parkman.

This subseries contains miscellaneous photographs collected by Francis Parkman. Subjects include a fish, a manuscript map of an unidentified location, and a manuscript written in French, as well as a series of four views of an interior of an unidentified church and an unidentified man, taken by the same photographer. One of the photographs was taken by Sweeney of Cleveland, Ohio; the other photographers are unknown.