A 3"x4" glass plate negative, bust portrait photograph of Martha E. Burkey, daughter of Joshua E. Burkey, Octavia, Nebraska, wearing a plaid dress with scooped velvet bodice insert outlined with a wide velvet collar, a stand collar on the bodice insert with brooch, velvet cuffs on the long sleeves, her blond hair in one braid down her back, sitting on a stool.