Ernest W. Brown, photographer, corner of Main and Green Streets, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, documented his own first premium prize-winning exhibition display at the Monroe County Fair in September 1889 in this albumen cabinet card, the mount imprinted in gold lettering on the left border with his name and address. The display board, lettered at top "E.W. Brown Photographer" and at bottom "1st Premium Monroe Co. Fair Sept. 1889," presents approximately twenty photographs arranged around a large central print of Garfield Beach on the Great Salt Lake, Utah, the caption partially legible on the central image.

The surrounding photographs include multiple portraits of Native American subjects, among them a group before a tipi, individual portraits of Native American women in traditional dress, and a group portrait outside what appears to be a pueblo structure. Additional images include a dramatic waterfall view consistent with a western park or canyon, canoes on a still lake, a landscape view, a formal portrait of a woman, a dog portrait, and several additional western landscape and architectural subjects. The breadth and western character of the collection assembled by a Pennsylvania-based photographer suggests Brown either traveled extensively in the American West or acquired negatives from western sources for exhibition purposes.

The reverse bears no additional inscription. The left border of the mount carries Brown's studio imprint in ornate gold lettering identifying his corner address in Stroudsburg. The card documents both a specific fair award and the ambitious scope of one small-town photographer's exhibition practice in the late 1880s.