Students and teachers posed in studio in front of painted backdrop. Most students wear ribbons. Written on photograph negative: "Jan. 90." Printed on mat front: "Tomlinson, photographer." Printed on mat back: "Tomlinson, photographer, 236 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on mat back: "Graduating class, Feb. 1890. High school." Numbers written on mat back as key to picture, with names: "2. Bessie Curtiss; 9. Carrie Beal Earhart; 14. Mrs. Bishop; 15. Prof. F.L. Bliss; 16. Canfield?; 17. Young; 19. Sherrard; 22. Grace Major; 24. Alfred C. Marshall; 26. Val? Ives; 29[ or 30]. Dr. William Wilmon Newcomb." Photograph and mat badly worn and torn.