The image is a cabinet card albumen photograph depicting a logging scene with a large group of men, teams of horses, and extraordinarily large felled logs being hauled on sleds. The setting appears outdoors in winter conditions, with snow on the ground and workers posed around the timber. The scale of the logs is emphasized by the number of men standing atop and beside them, as well as the heavy rigging and draft animals required to move them. No photographer’s imprint is visible on the recto.

The verso bears a detailed period manuscript note identifying the subject as old-growth pine from the farm of Col. Rufus Lewis in New Hampton, New Hampshire, hauled by B. M. Ames. The handwritten annotation records specific measurements, stating the diameter of the largest log at the butt as five feet four inches, with a diameter of thirty-two inches at sixty feet from the butt, and gives a date of March 1886. This inscription anchors the image firmly within the context of late nineteenth-century New England logging and timber transport, documenting both the scale of old-growth forests and the labor required to exploit them.

The mount is a standard cabinet card format with a dark border framing the image. The verso is otherwise plain aside from the handwritten descriptive note and a small numerical notation.