his hand-colored stereograph card features two nearly identical, side-by-side rectangular photographs with rounded corners, mounted on a light-brown, pebble-textured cardboard backing. The image shows a group of refugees in a grassy outdoor area bordering a paved street. In the foreground, a woman wearing a dark brown shawl is crouched on the ground near a small, makeshift cooking fire. Behind her, two men in dark suits and hats stand near a white canvas tent that has been pitched on the grass. Several other white tents and scattered figures are visible further down the line of the camp under a pale sky. Small, light-colored text printed at the bottom right of the photographs reads: "No. 1040. San Francisco Refugees Camped by the Wayside and Cooking their Rations in the Gutters.". Below the mounted stereograph, a gray and black color calibration scale is visible within the frame.