The photograph shows Catfish Creek with an old railroad bridge spanning it and a boat with a man in it on the left bank. "Copyright 1907 by Hager & Blish" is printed in the lower right.
A dirt road runs through a river and up into the grassy bluffs. There is a yellow house and smokestack barely visible in the trees in the distance to the left of the road. The sky is colored in pinks and blues.
The card shows four men, identified on the back as Albert Hoffmann, Peter B. Hoffmann, Vincent Hoffmann, and Emil Youngblood, squatting under a tree in a field.
Four smaller photos are incorporated into the larger. The upper left shows a crowd of people on a street; the upper right, a boat on the river with a bridge in the background. The two lower photographs show a building at the end of a circular drive…
There is a tunnel cut into a hill of rock with small building next to it; there is a road coming from the left side of the hill and curving in front of the tunnel.
A railway line raised on an embankment is to the left side of the card, while there is another, lower one running along the left with a building beyond. A tall electrical pole stands next to the lines.
A row of buildings runs along the left hand side of a snow-covered street. The buildings are tall, all at least three stories, and toward the back of the card appear to grow taller - it is possibly depicting downtown Dubuque.