Ambrotype of a woman with dark hair parted in the middle, pulled back, with a dark veil hanging behind her shoulders. She wears a Civil War era top that buttons to the waist, has full sleeves and is topped with a light colored embroidered collar that is secured at the throat by an oversized oval brooch. She also wears a dark colored choker of attached oval rings. Subject is Emma M. (Fewkes) Darling (c. 1832-1903).