A French quarter plate daguerreotype of four people in everyday working dress, three men in caps gathered around a woman in a white bonnet. Portraits of working people in their own clothes are far less common than sitters in formal dress, and this group is hand tinted.

At left a man with a moustache and chin beard wears a soft peaked cap, a neckerchief, and a light smock. The woman at center has a frilled white cap, a ruffled collar touched with blue, a patterned bodice, and hands crossed at her waist, with a hand resting on her shoulder. At right an elderly man with white hair and side whiskers wears a peaked cap and a light smock open over a dark buttoned waistcoat. Behind them stands a bearded man in a tall uniform cap with a badge and a dark buttoned coat.

The plate is mounted in the French manner behind glass painted in a tortoiseshell pattern, with a shaped gilt line and a gilt mat. The back is sealed with paper and fitted with a brass hanging ring.