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A large round bluff stands directly on the river, with electrical poles circling it.

On a bluff overlooking the river, with the city beyond, is a large building which housed the Mount Carmel nuns.

A barge or ferry is docked on the river by a small cluster of buildings. It is tentatively identified on the back as Specht's Ferry just north of Dubuque.

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.

Shot from a boat or the opposite bank, the photo shows a stretch of river and a couple of small buildings alongside a railroad track in the bluffs along the bank.

A round hill rises above a small town on the river, tentatively identified as Mount Buena Vista on the back.

A boat with canopy floats on the still water of the river. Shot from the opposite bank, the boat is too small to make out its name or the people in it.

Two men are on a dock on the river with the city in the background while a ferry has just launched. The scene is identified as the ice harbor, with the East Dubuque ferry launching.

Emil Youngblood and Edward Hoffmann are seated on a rock outcropping over a valley, their legs dangling and backs turned to the camera. They are looking over a valley with a creek running through it.

Emil Youngblood, Edward Hoffmann and Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. are posed in the photo - Emil sitting on the top of a higher bluff further back, with Edward standing closer and slightly above Peter B., who is on the ground. They are looking out and to the…