A cloth-covered box with 4 separate volumes inside, also cloth-covered, which contain cloth pages bound vertically, accordion style, and printed with cyanotype portraits of babies, girls, and women in vintage photographs; one photograph from each volume is printed on the cover of the volume.
Title from colophon, which is on the verso of the final fold of the 4th volume.
On the inside of the box top an illustrated, printed card is affixed, containing this message: The four books of 'What she needs' may be hung on the wall by the blue thread on the cover of each book to form a piece of wall art.
The text of the book is by Sophie Tucker, three cyanotypes of whom are on the final fold of volume 4; one of those is on the cover of the larger box.
The four volumes are numbered 1-4. Two of them are placed in separate compartments, and the other two are housed in separate boxes, all within the larger box.