black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; printed on label on verso "Statue of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. / Photographed by the Original J. A. Williams, / P.O. Box 507 Newport, R.I."; statue designed by John Quincy Adams Ward and pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt, dedicated 1869; image of statue of Perry, standing and wearing his naval uniform; he has his cape gathered in his right hand, clutched at his chest while his sword is in his left hand with tip placed on ground; statue on a circular base which contains wrap-around bronze bas-relief plaque depicting events in Perry's life; rectangular wrought-iron fence surrounds statue