A photograph of four men, members of the Conservatory String Quartet. Two of them are holding violins, one a viola and the other a cello. Three are sitting and one is standing in a room in front of a shelf with a model boat on top of it, and an indistinct framed picture on the wall above the shelf. They are examining sheet music arranged on stands. The four men are identified left to right as Elie Spivak, Harold Sumberg, Leo Smith and Donald Heins, and a handwritten note reads "To John R. Cruickshank, with grateful thoughts, The Conservatory Quartet, Toronto, 1930."