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Wallace Row has been identified as a time keeper with the Illinois Central Rail Road. He is standing at the right in the photograph. He is using a typewriter-like machine, perhaps an adding machine, that types onto a narrow roll of paper. Behind and…

The Wales Hotel, located on the corner of Bluff and 8th Streets, facing Bluff. A 5 story building with a two story add-on to the left. The hotel has a fire escape right in the middle of the building, extending from the roof, to the second floor.…

A man identified as George Bock is standing beside the frame and large wheels of an unfinished wagon. His brother Emil Bock is visible in the rear of the shop, standing behind other unfinished wagon frames. Several large wheels and other frame parts…

This brick building was one of the first constructed on the University Avenue campus of Dubuque College, now known as the University of Dubuque. Three entrances are visible. Two of the entrances are framed by towers with turrets on the top. Several…

A soldier, with a cigarette in his mouth, is sitting atop his horse while is stands in and drinks from a body of water. There is a boat along the shore in the background. The photo is marked as U.S. Official and has the Signal Corps logo,…

The bride, groom and another man and woman are shown standing on the alter steps in the front of a church sanctuary. Immediately behind the individuals may be seen an archway decorated with a large paper bell, white ribbons and bows. A large, open…

This house is up on a dirt hill and looks to be just finished with construction or almost finished. There is a curved sidewalk leading up to the house that starts in the lower left part of the photograph and moves towards the right side and curves…

Jessie M. Keys (at the desk) sits with two other women in the office of the Visiting Nurses Association, room 308 of the B & I Building. There is a cot against the wall at left, and a screen at right. The number “162” has been written on the emulsion…

A view looking east, of two bridges. The railroad bridge is on the left, and a passenger bridge may be seen on the right. The floor of the passenger bridge is constructed of wooden planks. Electrical and telephone wires and cables span the expanse of…

A woman and man are seated on the side of a partially submerged steam engine that has tipped over into waters of the Mississippi that have covered tracks near the Dubuque water front. Another woman is standing on the tracks. The engine overturned on…