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A dirt road leads from the left side of the photograph, to the right side. There are wooden posts with wire running through them in the foreground running along side the road. On the right of the photograph is a man wearing a dark, 3-piece suit with…

A train track curves around to the left with light poles to the right, a high cliff to the near left, and the river in the far distance.

A railroad that goes through a bluff and winds around. In the background of the photograph is an open area with trees. There is a telegraph pole sitting on the left side of the photograph. There is also a man standing in the background of the…

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.

A railroad track curves off the to the left in the distance, where there is a man walking the tracks. There are limestone cliffs covered by vegetation on both sides and electrical poles to the left of the tracks.

A woman is standing beside railroad tracks, looking south and shading her eyes as if she is watching for a train. A man can be seen hurrying across the tracks toward the woman. Behind her is the Chicago Burlington & Quincy depot. Across the tracks…

Curving railroad tracks are shown running along the rocky banks of a small river. Telephone poles are visible between the tracks and the river. The photographer’s notes indicate that this image was taken along the banks of “the South Fork of the…

Two sets of railroad tracks running long the river converge at a small house or station right on the water, with the bluffs across one of the tracks.

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 man and two boys stand on the railroad tracks in a yard wit ha water tower, buildings, and train cars behind them. It is identified as the Dubuque Water Co.