Ninth plate studio portrait of a young African American girl wearing a polka-dotted dress with puffed sleeves sitting in a chair and holding a white baby on her lap. The baby wears a long white dress. A studio pillar is visible to the viewer's left. (Surface mottling/chemical deterioration, 3 circular indentations to upper left portion of plate, corners clipped.) Housed in a Union case (loose hinge, chipping to edges).