This black-and-white landscape image depicts a wide, snow-covered expanse, presumably a frozen lake, set against a backdrop of snow-dusted mountains and a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a person stands alone on the left side of the frozen surface. To the right, a horse-drawn sleigh carrying several passengers travels across the snow. The sleigh is pulled by a team of four dark-colored horses arranged in pairs. In the mid-ground, a shoreline with a few scattered buildings and dense patches of evergreen trees leads up to the steep, rugged slopes of the mountains. Small, printed text is centered at the bottom of the image, reading "SKATING ON DONNER LAKE, OPPOSITE DONNER LAKE SUB-DIVISION No. 1" and "Donner Lake, winter series." The photograph is mounted on a light-gray card, and a grayscale calibration strip is visible along the top edge of the photo.