The first two boxes of the collection consist of two photo albums with Ute Indians (studio portraits), islands of the Great Salt Lake, Saltair and Garfield resorts, LDS Church officials, and Salt Lake City views. The third and fourth boxes contain cabinet portrait photos from the Sainsbury & Johnson Co. Studio including actors and actresses in the Salt Lake Theater and miscellaneous studio portraits. The fifth and sixth boxes consist of glass lantern slides of actors, singers, celebrities, and California landscapes. The seventh box contains glass lantern slides from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour in 1902. The eighth box is a 1901 souvenir album with albertypes of Salt Lake City views. boxes 9 and 10 consist of stereoviews including risqué, burlesque and artistic images of women plus a few miscellaneous views of animals, children, and flowers. box 11 consists of a scrapbook Johnson compiled of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir tour of 1896. box 12 contains duplicates of the stereoviews.

Box 13 contains slides that are reproductions of various stereoviews and glass plate negatives of A-boards photos.

Researcher Note: Images 1:01-1:96 and 2:01-2:50 are stored in the vault. Polaroid color reproductions are available for researcher use. Some of the photographs in the collection are copies Johnson made from earlier photographers. Please note that the numbering system is slightly off. Photos 2:52 through 2:71 are in box three and photos 3:001 through 3:120 are in box four. There are more Johnson 1897 Jubilee photographs in the historical board collection, A-2401 through A-2478.