Cabinet card featuring a richly detailed interior view of Atwater’s Photographic Studio, located at 1603 South Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. The image offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the elaborate and well-appointed environment of a late 19th-century portrait studio. Heavy drapery is pulled aside to reveal a spacious room furnished with a wide variety of chairs, posing stools, small tables, and props. Painted backdrops, animal rugs, and classical statuettes are carefully arranged to create a range of portrait settings within a single space.

Natural light filters in from above through diffused skylights, highlighting the textural richness of the carpets and upholstery. The space evokes the genteel atmosphere of Victorian taste, with careful attention paid to composition, elegance, and variety. Atwater’s attention to client experience is underscored by the printed caption, which invites potential sitters to inspect the studio's offerings and notes that "you will find this one of the finest Photograph Studios in the city and first-class in all its appointments."

Photographs of studio interiors from this period are uncommon, and those that show a working environment with such completeness and clarity are especially valuable to historians of photography. This card not only documents the aesthetic and functional elements of a successful portrait business, but also serves as a rare promotional artifact from a competitive era of American studio photography.