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Closest to the camera are three men standing on a stone-and-wood jetty, dangling their fishing poles into the water. There are at least two people on the jetty in the distance.

A man has 'docked' his fishing boat along the mostly water-covered wing dam across the river ,and is standing on a portion of the uncovered stones to fish.

A hat-less man is seated on the large stones that make up a portion of the wing dam that extends across the water. He is dangling a long fishing pole downriver.

Six men are sitting in the canopied boat the "Eleanor G." The one seated in the back carries a gun, while some of the men in the middle are smoking their pipes. The boat is still banked and has not shoved off into the river.

Two men are in a small fishing boat on the water. One holds the oar with the other has a ribbed net in both hands, pulling it out of the water. The sky is cloudy and there are high bluffs across the open water in the background.

Three men are leaning and standing on the edge of a natural jetty extending into the water, which is banked up with sticks. They are fishing.

A stone wing dam stretches across the river. There are two men fishing off it close to the viewer, and two more in the distance. At the bottom of the photo is a man with hat sitting in a boat.

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 white boat with canopy named the "Vici" is pulled slightly onto the bank of a stream. Two men sit on a log in the background behind it; they could possibly be Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. and Emil Youngblood.

White stones are piled into a line along the river creating a wing dam. There is a house on the bank of the far side that appears to be flooded.