This is an Antique Portrait of a Woman by William McKenzie Morrison (1857-1927), who was the most financially successful theatrical portrait photographer in Chicago during the final decades of the 19th century. He began at age ten as a gallery boy in a Chicago photographic studio, graduated from Metropolitan Business College (1879), and managed several city galleries before founding the Haymarket Studio in 1889. Specializing in celebrity photos, he favored light even tonalities which were the result of using Kirkland Lithium paper, a 3-A Dallmeyer lens, and the natural light from his Haymarket's great skylight. This black and white portrait shows a young, dark-haired woman in a three-quarters pose, wearing a hat covered with feathers, a floral hair embellishment, a high neck lace collar and an elaborate shoulder multi-toned bow. She may be an actress but has not been identified. The photograph measures 5.75" by 4" and is mounted on a 7.25" by 4.375" textured light tan board embossed with "Morrison Haymarket Theatre Bld'g. 161 West Madison Street Chicago" in gold. The address indicates that this portrait was taken in 1899 or earlier, as Morrison moved to the Champlain Building that year. The off-white back of the board is unmarked. This Antique Portrait of a Woman by William McKenzie Morrison is in Very Good condition. The emulsion has one light half inch scratch to the right of the bow.