File consists of two photographs, mounted and unmounted. One is a close view of three friends, left to right: David Shannon Bowlby, Albert Liborius Breithaupt, William Lyon Mackenzie King standing in front of a doorway; the second is a view of them from a distance, with the entire house front visible. A variant of the first image was published in Murray W. Nicolson's Woodside and the Victorian family of John King. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1984. A third unmounted photograph is possibly William Lyon Mackenzie King posed outside, with an unidentified building [University of Toronto?] behind.

File consists of one photograph of David Sovereign Bowlby with sons David Shannon (centre) and George Herbert on right.

File consists of materials relating to David Sovereign Bowlby and his wife Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby. File includes:

• clippings including obituaries of D.S., Martha and their domestic, as well as on the unveiling of a memorial window and a posthumous article on D.S.' career as a doctor;
• one piece of correspondence from Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement to Martha;
• genealogical notes on the Murphy family;
• a print of the Bowlby family residence;
• and an article on D.S. from the Fifth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society.

File consists of materials relating to David Shannon Bowlby and wife Lillian Barnes Bowlby. Includes obituaries for David and Lillian as well as for their children Shannon Bowlby and Carolyn Bowlby Davison.

File consists of one three quarter length studio graduation portrait of David Shannon Bowlby. David is shown with legs crossed, wearing a gown and holding a graduation cap in his lap.

File consists of one upper body studio portrait of David Shannon Bowlby seen in partial profile looking of camera in graduation cap and gown.

File consists of a studio portrait of Shannon D. Bowlby.

File consists of one photograph showing members of the Bowlby family in front of "Liberty Hall", the family home. In the carriage are shown Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby and Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement, being pulled by mare Dolly. In front of the home are shown David Sovereign Bowlby, George Herbert Bowlby, Blanche Alexandrine (Adine) Seagram Bowlby, David Shannon Bowlby, and Grace Esther Bowlby Fennell. The photograph was used in "Busy Berlin" in 1897.