Cabinet card portrait of a young woman posed beside a mirror, creating a double image showing both her profile and her reflected face. She is seated in a studio chair wearing a light-colored dress with elaborate lace collar and decorative trim, while a lace curtain drapes across the upper portion of the composition.

The photographer intentionally used the mirror to create a striking visual arrangement in which the sitter appears twice within the frame. One view shows her profile while the mirror presents a frontal reflection, a studio technique occasionally used by photographers to demonstrate both sides of a subject’s face within a single portrait.

The mount bears the imprint “Allen, Angelica, N.Y.” Angelica was a small town in Allegany County, New York, and cabinet card portraits from such rural studios often display inventive posing and studio arrangements such as this mirror composition.