The photo shows a view of snowy Main Street from the corner of 12th. There is a woman walking away from the viewer on the left side of the street and a man facing toward the camera on the right.
A white boat with canopy named the "Vici" is pulled slightly onto the bank of a stream. Two men sit on a log in the background behind it; they could possibly be Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. and Emil Youngblood.
A railroad track curves along the left bank of the Mississippi. The Julien Dubuque monument is visible on a bluff, and on the one beyond it there is Mount Carmel.
A stone wing dam stretches across the river. There are two men fishing off it close to the viewer, and two more in the distance. At the bottom of the photo is a man with hat sitting in a boat.