A full length portrait of an Assistant Purser on board a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger ship. He is wearing a white waistcoat and is standing in front of double doors near a framed drawing. The photographer's caption on the border of the transparency is ""Assistant Purser P & O Tropics - after 6.0 p.m.". Transparencies numbers P63191CT to P63194CT are of the same man, especially posed in his evening uniform in the same location.