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The Mississippi River is in view with a steamboat in the background on the right side of the photograph. The steamboat has to large steam pipes in the front of the steamboat and in front of the pilot house that sits on the roof of the second level of…

A double decker passenger steamboat and a smaller steam-powered tow boat may be seen passing each other on the Mississippi River near Dubuque, Iowa. The tow boat is pushing one barge. A wing dam in visible in the background. Farm land may be seen…

Four stories in height with elaborate peaked roof gables, this large brick building housed classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. The front of the building faced University Avenue. Dedicated on April 25, 1907, the building was named…

A man sits at a typewriter next to a telegraph machine and a second man stands in this stock exchange room in the B & I building. The negative is heavily damaged. The number “161” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible…

A stone house with a staircase leading from the top of the porch, down the hill with greenery, to the sidewalk. The sidewalk has a short wall of limestone that separates it from the hill. The house is two story and the front porch features a front…

This is a small light colored stone house. It has a curved roof, much like the look of a barn. There is a small chimney on the back side of the roof in the middle. The house faces a dirt hill and a walkway comes up from the middle of the sidewalk and…

Shot from the bank of the stream, a still stream approximately 15 feet across has leafy trees on both banks.

A low, fast-moving stream runs over rocks. The far left bank is piles with rocks, and there are trees on both banks of the stream.

Taken in the spring or summer when the trees are fully leafed out, the photograph is shot down a street with trees growing on either side. There is a house to the right which seems to be the main focus of the picture, although it is not identified.

This image shows the interior of the Union Electric railroad car barn. A section of railroad track leads into a large open space with a smaller storeroom visible in the rear. A small dolly may be seen between the tracks. Numerous machines used to…