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A path has been made by two wheels going through the snow, curving away to the right. There is a forest to the left of the tracks and a snowy hill to the right.

Three barges, two two-story and a single one-story, are docked along the river.

The card shows a view of wooden houses gradually climbing the hill in a city, likely Dubuque.

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.