2 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. CDV on cardstock mount (light toning, some surface soiling, and wear to mount edges and corners including clipped upper right corner. Mount verso with significant paper loss and remnants of previously adhered paper). Photographer's partial 122 & 124 Clark St. imprint on verso.

Douglass is pictured wearing a dark, high-necked waistcoat and jacket looking at the camera with a piercing gaze, his hair beginning to grey. Cataloged in Picturing Frederick Douglass cat. #31, dated to Douglass’ trip to Chicago to deliver two lectures at Bryan Hall on February 25 and 28, 1864.