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Two men are in a small fishing boat on the water. One holds the oar with the other has a ribbed net in both hands, pulling it out of the water. The sky is cloudy and there are high bluffs across the open water in the background.

Three men are leaning and standing on the edge of a natural jetty extending into the water, which is banked up with sticks. They are fishing.

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.

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 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.

White stones are piled into a line along the river creating a wing dam. There is a house on the bank of the far side that appears to be flooded.

A railroad track curves along the left bank of the Mississippi. The Julien Dubuque Monument and Mount Carmel motherhouse top two of the bluffs.

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.

Railroad tracks running along the Mississippi on the Wisconsin/Illinois side are identified as the Burlington Tracks - North(?).

A farmhouse is situated at the foot of a bluff, right by the railroad tracks that run along the river. There is a steamboat drifting by.