Album containing 83 black and white, sepia-toned and coloured photographs and prints, including chromolithograph and Photocrom prints, of various sizes mounted on boards. The album belonged to the Mayne family. Some photographs have printed captions and/or studio imprints. Studios represented include Francis Ellis & W. Hayward (London), Detroit Photographic Company, and G. Brogi. None of the photographs or prints are dated. Some boards are blank.

The photographs feature: European scenery, mostly in France; reproductions of artworks, including The Blind Beggar by Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans, The Maid and the Magpie by Samuel Cousins (after Edward Landseer), Venus de Milo, Circe And Her Swine by Briton Rivière, The Valley of the Llugwy by Benjamin Williams Leader, A Woman and a Fish-pedlar in a Kitchen by Willem van Mieris, The Broken Pitcher by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Girl at the Gate by Sir George Clausen, Dignity and Impudence by Sir Edwin Landseer, The Return of Judith with the Head of Holophernes by Sandro Botticelli, and Fortitude, also by Sandro Boticelli; portraits of Native Americans, including Ute Chief Severo and his family; views of Manhattan, New York City, some by William Henry Jackson; and views of North Queensland, including Barron Falls, Fig Tree, Herberton, and the Hanging Rock at Chillagoe. Also includes one photograph of an unidentified Australian homestead, possibly in Queensland, depicting Aboriginal Australian and non-Aboriginal individuals, along with an emu, on the verandah.