4 x 5 1/2 in. cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (print and mount heavily worn, with damage/loss to left edge of print, fading, and soiling). An uncredited, outdoor portrait of an African American soldier shown standing with rifle in hand in front of a brick building. Penciled notations on mount verso identify the subject as Isaac Brown and the location as "Fort Logan, Feb. 1899." Also included is a list of places Brown was presumably stationed, which appears to include Mexico, Honolulu, Manila, and Nagasaki (some notations difficult to discern). Although his regiment is not identified, research indicates that Brown served with the 24th US Infantry Regiment, which was at Fort Logan in February 1899.

The 24th US Infantry was one of the four so-called Buffalo Soldier regiments formed in 1869. From its inception through 1898, the 24th served throughout the western US, with missions that ranged from garrisoning frontier posts to fighting Native Americans and guarding the border between the United States and Mexico. In 1899 the regiment deployed to the Philippines to help suppress a guerrilla movement in the Philippine–American War.