This is an unusually large daguerreotype and an important panorama of Paris.

A group of three children. There is a young suited boy seated in the centre with a standing girl holding a doll to his right and a standing girl holding a wooden horse to his left. Both girls have dresses with white lacy collars and the boy wears a suit, double breasted waist coat, bow tie and rounded collar. They all look to the viewers left. The girls have both moved during the exposure.

Case opens along shorter side

Portrait of a mother and child; Julia Margaret Cameron and Julia Hay Cameron, the child. The child, with long dark hair, sits on her mother's lap. She wears a white dress, pantaloons and socks. The mother also wears a pale dress, flounced over the shoulders and upper body, held with a brooch at the front; showing a portrait. The edge of a wood chair is visible.

Half-length portrait of a man looking towards the camera. His head rests on his left hand, the left elbow is on a cloth-covered table. His right hand holds something white, possibly a handkerchief. He has (what looks like) fair hair, and sideburns. He wears a dark jacket, dark waistcoat, white shirt and a dark cravat.