View is to the northeast from Garroway (4th Avenue South) showing a crowd gathered on the south lawn of the Moorhead High School for a memorial service for assassinated President William McKinley on September 19, 1901. The wall of the High School is covered with black crepe and decorated with two large American flags flanking a draped photo of McKinley. Dignitaries sit on a platform before the crowd. Standing at left is Rev. Gustav Larson of Moorhead's Trinity Lutheran Church reading a passage from the Bible.
View is to the southwest from the north side of Main Avenue just east of 6th Street South. The recently completed Moorhead Post Office and Federal Building stands on the corner across the intersection.