Subseries B consists of personal notebooks, calendars, and agendas. Many of these contain sketches, drawings, and handwritten notes. Notebooks and agendas appear to have been used to record thoughts and personal observations. The sketches and drawings are mostly architectural in nature. The agendas also record some personal appointments.

Subseries E consists of other records that document Harold Spence-Sales professional relationships outside of work that are miscellaneous in nature and primarily relate to friends and colleagues in the field of architecture and urban planning.

Subseries E also contains six of Moshe Safdies binders. The binders are indexes of materials and supplies that Safdie used while working on projects. The binders also provide lists of where the records that Safdie created while working on projects is located. (Files 006-011).

Subseries A consists of records related to projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on as an urban planner and consultant. The files in subseries A contains records that are created and used while an urban planner works on urban development projects.

Subseries B consists of records that are graphic in nature; primarily slide-transparencies, photographs and negatives.

The photographic materials within subseries B are primarily aerial photographs and photographs of landscapes, land formations and geographical features. Harold Spence-Sales likely used the photographs to help him understand the geographic areas for the urban development projects that he worked on.

Subseries A consists of records that pertain to family events, home life and genealogy. It Includes many photographs of events such as birthday parties and weddings (possibly Harold Spence-Sales' and Mary Filer's wedding). Also includes photographs of the couple's early years together and their home art and sculpture collection.

Subseries D consists of twelve scrapbooks compiled by Harold Spence-Sales which illustrate his artistic interests and pursuits. In the scrapbooks, Spence-Sales included photographs, printed pages featuring art and artworks, and some hand-drawn graphic materials.

Subseries F consists of audiovisual records: cassette tapes, VHS tapes and DVD's that relate to Harold Spence-Sales life events and activities; birthday parties, reward receptions and exhibition projects that he worked on. The Exhibitions that the VHS tapes and DVDs relate to are, "Roof Tops" and "Touchlines"

Subseries F also contains some of Harold Spence-Sales personal artifacts: certificates from professional associations, professional stamps and a flag of his own design etc.

Subseries C consists of copies of publications that Harold Spence-Sales authored independently and publications that he co-authored with John Bland.

Subseries C consists of maps that Harold Spence-Sales used to work on urban development projects but the ventures have not been identified. The cartographic materials in subseries C are comprised of printed and hand drawn maps.

Subseries E consists primarily of records that Harold Spence-Sales used to work on personal or profession projects that have not been identified. There is one project in subseries E that has been well documented; the 1107 W. 7th Avenue Vancouver project.

1107 W. 7th Avenue Vancouver was Harold Spence-Sales and Mary Filers home and personal art studios.