A group of nine people are sitting and standing outside a small white-sided house. Peter B. Sr., Emil Youngblood, Albert D. and Edward Hoffmann are identifiable.
Edward Hoffmann and Emil Youngblood are fishing off a large rock in the middle of a stream. The back identifies it as Boat Rock at the lower end of Swiss Valley.
Albert and Peter B. Sr. are seated in the left boat, while Emil Youngblood is sitting in the other one while Edward pushes off the shore with his oar. They look to be on the Mississippi River.
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.
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.