This monochrome image is a head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with white hair and thin-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark suitcoat and tie on a light-colored shirt. He poses in front of a neutral background. He has a pin on his lapel, and he is not looking directly at the camera. On the back of the image, the text "Photograph by/ Judson Smith Studio/ Fredericksburg, VA" are stamped in ink and "Wor. Ishmael Arritt Pugh 1961" is handwritten in ink.