Group portrait of students and teachers; girls wear high-necked dresses, boys wear suits. Printed on front: "Detroit High School, class of January, '88." Label on back: "Detroit High School, January class of 1888; back row standing left to right, Emma Weatherby, Mary Ella Wood, Henrietta Robinson, Maude A. Priest, Clara Marsha Roat, Ada M. Rouse, Theressa G. Bedford; second row, left to right, John Alfred Heavenrich, Day Krolik, Charles R. Weymouth, William Leslie Stevenson, Henry Magnus Butzel, Frederick C. Henderson, Frank I. Holt; third row, French professor, Professor Adams (physics & chemistry), Florence Edna Murray, Professor Bliss, Mrs. Bishop (12th grade), Professor Miller, Lulu Baldwin Gregory, Professor Sherard (Latin); below, Jean W. Wilson, Charlotte A. Stowe, Mary Cecelia Mulvey, Grace Darlene Worrall, Gertrude Katherine Boynton, Clara Mary Meiser, Irene Chittenden Farquhar, Hannah Maria Wilson." Bottom of mat is damaged.
