The mural was painted on the side of a building and based on the painting of the same name by artist Charles Nahl. The mural showed people escaping from the painting and climbing down a ladder to the top of an 18-Hole billboard.

The mural is shown in context with the rest of 12th Street in Sacramento, California. The side of the Masonic Temple was exposed because of a parking lot.

A ladder was balanced on the top edge of an 18-Hole billboard. It leaned against the bottom of the "Sunday Morning In The Mines" painting, where it allowed folks inside the painting to escape.

A brass plaque was painted just below the "Sunday Morning In The Mines" painting. It read:

Sunday Morning In The Mines 1872
See original painting at the
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

Four of the men in the painting gathered above and on the ladder intent on escape.

A contemporary businessman found the ladder. He held onto the the ladder and looked up at the rustically dressed people escaping.