A 4"x5" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Ruth Duncan, David City, Nebraska, and an unknown woman. One woman is dressed in a light-colored long-sleeve, dress with contrasting fabric trim on the shawl collar, cuffs, belt and bodice, a separate bodice insert of smocked fabric with a high-stand collar edged with a narrow ruffle and a band of vertical tucks sewn down the skirt front. She is sitting with a handkerchief in one of her hands, her hair pulled back and fastened with a large fabric bow, wearing a hat of stiffened fabric, ribbon bows and silk flowers. The other woman is wearing a dark skirt with belt, white, long-sleeve blouse with ruffled, lace cuffs, a square-neck bodice insert of smocked fabric edged in a wide lace ruffle with a boned, high-stand collar. Her long hair is pulled back and secured with a white fabric bow and she is wearing a hat of stiffened fabric, ribbons, bows and silk flowers.
