The Dancing Cansinos photograph album consists of photographs and ephemera relating to the Dancing Cansinos, a family of professional dancers who emigrated from Spain and eventually settled in Los Angeles. The troupe consisted of Antonio, Sr. and Carmen Cansino; their children Eduardo, Elisa, Paco, Jose, Antonio, Jr., Rafael, and Angel; Gabriel Cansino, a cousin; and, briefly in the 1930s, Margarita Carmen Cansino, who later became known as the actress Rita Hayworth. Rita Hayworth's parents were Eduardo Cansino and Volga Hayworth. The Dancing Cansinos, and Elisa in particular, played a major role in bringing Spanish and Romani dances to the United States.

The album primarily comprises professional posed images of the Cansino dancers. A real photo postcard (RPPC) portrait of Eduardo and Elisa opens the album, soon followed by a backstage photograph of Gabriel and other dancers (possibly including Elisa) at a theatre, several RPPCs of the Cansinos striking dance poses and in costume, and an inscribed photograph of Gabriel. Other images of the Cansinos include a handful of vernacular snapshots of several members of the family on a boat, and one of what appears to Gabriel on a horse.

Additional images include a group portrait photo of a party in what appears to be Seville, images of other dancers and performers that either performed with the Cansinos or, possibly, were students. The former include Nicholas Tsoukalas and Carmen and Pepe Guerrero, while the latter are a woman identified only as Coco, pictured in San Francisco (where Carmen opened a studio), and an unidentified woman in a swimsuit.

The album also contains various ephemera that primarily relate to Gabriel Cansino. Included is a 1927 holograph note for a monetary transaction in Madrid between Antonio and Gabriel; two promotional cards from 1925 and circa 1930; a program for a celebration of Mexico's independence held in San Francisco in 1931, at which Gabriel performed; a mockup of an advertisement featuring Elisa and Gabriel in Who's Who in Music and Dance in Southern California; a flyer for an appearance by Elisa in Toronto; and programs for California performances by Gabriel.

The album measures 7 by 11 inches: commercial black string-bound album with black construction paper leaves; 27 leaves used, recto only. The album contains 9 black and white photographs and 17 real photo postcards (most affixed with corner mounts, but a few pasted in), two laid-in real photo postcards of Rita Hayworth, and 5 mounted or pasted-in pieces of ephemera. An additional 11 pieces of ephemera are laid in, mostly programs, as well as 10 black and white snapshots and real photo postcards of what appear to be unidentified members of the Cansino family. Lastly, the album contains six copies of a blank consent form for the Cansino Studio to use the name of the student, presumably in its programs and promotional material.