A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Maggie Shotwell, Ware, Nebraska, wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a dark floor-length dress of figured black-on-black fabric with fitted waist and shirred plain fabric bodice insert, high-stand collar of shirred fabric with ruffle in back and ruffle edging around the wrist of the tapered, shirred sleeves, standing in front of a painted backdrop featuring an open casement window, draperies and flower-filled urn.