Condition of the embankment or fill on the east side of Nicollet Island about the Great Northern Railroad Company's bridge. The fill was put in by the Wisconsin Central Railway Company ; also shows the pile posts for the substructure of the proposed bridge and coffer dam for the pier.
High Mississippi River with ice and debris. Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
Area near the lower dam, the gatehouse is to the left and there are several logs in the Mississippi River; the Minneapolis Western railroad bridge is in the background.