This carte-de-visite shows Corporal Guy Alfred Coover, who was a member of Company D, 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in on June 14, 1898 as a private, promoted to corporal on July 27, 1899 and mustered out with his regiment. The photograph was taken in Manila when Coover was 20 years old. Coover was living in Walnut, Kansas when he enlisted in the Army.