Photographer George Taylor identified the structures in the images as, from right to left, tailor's shop, Provo Post Office kept by Captain Cumingham, pioneer candy store, Gardner's Exchange after a fire, D. P. Thueson's Shoe Shop, an open space owned by William Benley, George Taylor's photograph gallery, George Taylor furniture store, open space and building owned by Peter States, and Brigham Young Academy. The little boy sitting in the ditch is John T. Taylor, son of the photographer.