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Four men and a younger boy are pulling up a weighted, broad net from the river. There is netting already piled on the bank, and a boat with a crank shaft floats to the right of the photo.

Shot from the opposite bank, the photo shows a small one-story barge and a tent set up amid the trees. There is a stone bluff to the right.

The photograph is shot across the river, showing smooth water to the left and rough water to the right. It is labeled as a 'wing dam.'

The card shows a bluff rising above the river, and at its base are several buildings and a barge on the water. A cloud of smoke or steam rises toward the left of the photo, but is not easily identifiable.

A small mountain, faced on the right with trees and the left with rock and stone, rises above the river and is reflected in its still water. There are docks and boats dotted along the shore.

A barge with smoke coming from its pipe is pulling along an apparatus, dredging the river. There are wagons waiting on the shore.

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.

A man, too small to identify, is waving a flag from the top of a stone bluff.

A gravel road winds through the trees to the right of the card, and a wooden and metal bridge extends over an unseen stream to the left.

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.