The fonds documents Aline Gubbay's personal life and her career as a photographer.

The fonds contains correspondence and biographical documents such as a birth certificate, a wedding certificate, a will, a contract and diaries. Additional personal material includes a sketch, a drawing and photographs concerning Aline Gubbay and her family.

The fonds also includes professional documents such as schedules, notebook, costume design sketches, contact sheets, negatives, slides and photographs. Many of the photographs are Gubbay's own work, including "A Street Called the Main" and "Canadian Architecture in the 19th Century: a Selective Bibliography". Other photography subjects include images of architecture found in Montreal and Westmount.