A large group of people is standing on the tracks. Others are standing nearby or sitting on a pile of logs. Hundreds of logs are floating in the river. Children are climbing on a tipped West Shore Rail Road car and a Boston & Maine car is on the tracks. A locomotive is approaching from the south. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church is in the background. "Wreck at" is scratched into the glass negative.
C. R. Wilhelm and his wife Franziska are seated with an unidentified man and woman on the upper-story porch of a brick tenement. Carl Robert has a pipe and bottle. The women are drinking from polka dot glasses.
Two dolls next to a chalkboard easel in a room of the Wilhelms' home. A small Christmas tree sits at their feet. The room has floral wallpaper and patterned carpet.