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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

Three men are knee-deep in the water, stringing out a line presumably to help them fish. There are two empty boats in the water, one by the men and the other off the the right with a crank mounted in it. Another man is working on the nets on the bank…

Five men are hauling a net full of catch onto the bank of the river. There are two or three men in a fishing boat still on the water behind them, and another four men are walking along the bank of the river waiting for them.

A man is fishing from a dam built through the center of a body of water. It is about ten feet across, stone and gravel making a path in the center and about two feet of sticks shoring up either side.