[Mrs. John Thomas Mason, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

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The sitter is identified only by her married name, Mrs. John Thomas Mason, and she appears in a half-length pose, seated and turned toward the right of the frame. The caption card gives no date, so the picture can be placed only by its style and general period, not by any recorded event. Seated half-length portraits like this were a common way for families to record a sitter in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its place on a Freemasons board reflects the shared surname, but the record does not confirm any connection to the fraternal order.

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