A sepia-toned, vertical photograph depicts a remote landscape, covered in snow with only distant trees and the front of a snow-clearing machine visible. Most of the image is white snow. In the lower right foreground, the dark, metallic front of a rotary snowplow is visible, featuring a small, dark, square housing and ice-caked shapes behind it. On the horizon near the top of the photograph, a faint line of evergreen trees extend into a pale, overcast sky. The snowbank dominates the center of the frame, showing a wall of show in front of the machinery. Along the bottom edge of the photograph, small white printed text reads "4962 The Rotary attacking a snow bank. (Depth of snow, 20 feet). Taber Photo., San Francisco, Cal." There is a grayscle calibration strip at the top, above the photograph.