A sepia-toned stereograph features two nearly identical photographs mounted side-by-side on a light-tan card, showing a wide river scene with a wrecked boat. In the center of each frame, a long, flat-bottomed wooden scow is partially submerged and tilted in turbulent, white-water rapids. Two men are visible in a small rowboat in the foreground, positioned to the left of the wreck, with one man rowing toward the larger vessel. The river bank in the background is lined with a dense forest of evergreen trees under a pale sky. Vertical text is printed on the side margins of the card: the left margin reads "JAMES M. DAVIS, New York City, St. Louis, Liverpool, Toronto, Sydney," and the right margin reads "Copyright 1899, by B. W. Kilburn." A small printed caption at the bottom center of the images includes the number 13143 and identifies the scene as a scow wrecked in White Horse Rapids with 20 tons of freight on board, Alaska, during the Yukon gold rush.