Uncommon occupational cabinet card featuring two wallpaper hangers posed with their tools and freshly pasted paper in a studio setting. Each man wears a white apron and holds a brush or wallpaper roll, standing in front of a wall draped with a patterned paper likely meant to resemble their work. Between them is a long worktable with wallpaper stretched across and a paste bucket on a small bench to the side. The pose is staged but the tools, setup, and realism give it rare documentary value as a portrait of 19th-century decorative tradesmen.

Photographed by John Siegmund of Rock Island, Illinois, with his imprint clearly stamped on the reverse. A penciled note reads “Paper Hangers,” affirming the occupational context. The image captures a rarely depicted slice of interior trade labor and the pride these craftsmen had in their profession.

A sharp, clean image with good tonality and contrast, showing excellent detail in the figures, work tools, and printed wallpaper pattern. An unusual subject with strong appeal to collectors of occupational photography, trade history, or regional Midwestern portraiture.