Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: D.P. WHITING DEL CAPT. 7TH INF. DEL. / 1. Sierra Madre. / 2. Mitre Mountain. / 3. Height on Federation Hill. } Carried by Storm on the 21st Sept. / 4. Fort Soldado. } by part of the 2nd Division. / 5. Height from which shot was thrown from one of the captured } / nine pounders of the Redoubt, into the main Plaza on the 23rd } By part of the 2nd Division / 6. Height on Independence Hill, taken at daylight on the 22nd. }
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: MONTEREY, / As seen from a house-top in the main Plaza, (to the west.) / October, 1846. / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1847 by D.P. Whiting in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. / PRINTED IN COLORS BY G. & W. ENDICOTT NEW YORK.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, right: ON STONE BY CHAS. FENDERICH. /
7. Bishop's Palace, or Castle and Fort, Stormed on the 22nd. by part of the 2nd Division. / 8. City Police Offices and Prison. / 9. Pass leading to Saltillo.Occupied by the 2nd. Division on the morning of the 21st after the action of St. Jeronimo. / 10. Captured Mexican Cannon. / 11. Quarters of the 7th Infantry. / 12. Convent of St. Francisco. / [No. 1. of a Series.]