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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.

Six men are in front of a white-sided house. Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. leans on a tree to the far left of the frame. The two leftmost seated men are not identified; Vincent Hoffmann is the one seated between the trees. Albert D. and Edward stand to the…

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 country road winds past a farm and several outbuildings that are at the base of a tree-covered bluff.

A crowd of people is working to cut chunks of ice from the river; the bluffs are in the background. There is some cutting equipment in the frontal portion of the card, and farther back on the river there appears to be a team of horses helping men cut…

A group of people, who look mainly to be men and boys of various ages, stands on a snowy field with smoke coming from buildings in the background.

A group of twelve men dressed in coats and hats are standing on the iced-over river near the train bridge on the Mississippi.

The picture shows a snowy street and the view is identified as 12th and White looking West.

One man stands in the right lower of the photograph on a snowy field. He is looking toward the distance, where a crowd of people is on the ice of the river, with buildings spewing steam in the background. The scene may be from Dubuque.

A group of about ten people stand in the middle of the frozen river. The ice is pitted around them, and the train bridge spans the river in the background.