A young man in a suit with drafting equipment. He is posed looking at a gear as if he is about to begin an engineering drawing of the object. Drawing tables fill the room; on the back wall hang a large number of t-squares.
The Ames & Campus Railway (The Dinkey) is traveling along an area bordered with trees. The front of the photograph indicates that it may have been taken during Excursion Days, October 5-6, 1906.