A crowd gathers in the canteen, or general store to purchase dry goods and exchange information. Two men in hats and dark overcoats, warm their hands at a stove in the left foreground. Others stand in line at counters to purchase items on shelves along the walls. A boy stands next to a dog. Another woman carries a dog in her arms. Mine Okubo, wearing a hood and coat stands in the right foreground, her face in profile and her back to the viewer.