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A small mountain, faced on the right with trees and the left with rock and stone, rises above the river and is reflected in its still water. There are docks and boats dotted along the shore.

A barge with smoke coming from its pipe is pulling along an apparatus, dredging the river. There are wagons waiting on the shore.

Emil Youngblood and Edward Hoffmann are standing inside a tunnel mine shaft cut into the side of a bluff, pointing and looking upward at its walls. They are standing on top of the mine cart track. The location is identified as a lead mine in Dubuque.

A man, too small to identify, is waving a flag from the top of a stone bluff.

A gravel road winds through the trees to the right of the card, and a wooden and metal bridge extends over an unseen stream to the left.

A railroad track cuts straight through a stone bluff, which stands to the left while Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. stands on the small remaining chunk to the right.

Dozens of white tents cap the top of a tree-covered bluff. It is likely an army encampment, based upon other identified photos in the collection.

Two men stand on the slope of a hill with their backs to the camera, looking over the open valley beneath them. The view includes a stream bed, houses and buildings, a road, and trees.

A man, who looks to be Peter B. Hoffmann Sr., is standing and waving at the very top of a bluff in the distance, so small as to be barely visible.