Disappearing icons in my dock

So my wife and I just purchased our very first iMac. Wicked awesome. But I was playing around with my dock station and accidentally removed the two icons that were originally to the left of the Trash. These were the pdf and download icons. Where did they go and how can I put them back onto the dock? I looked in Finder but couldn't see them. Please help me.

The Downloads folder is at
<startup volume>/Users/<your short user name>/Downloads/
Show the icon for the Downloads folder in any Finder window. Click and hold on it, and drag it to the Dock to the right of the vertical line. Drop it where you want it. Once you drop it, you can drag it around to change the exact location, but if you drop it off the Dock, it disappears in a poof.
Note: You can add any document or folder to the right side of the vertical line. To the left side of the vertical line, you can add any application. Just drag and drop the application icon as you did above. You can remove apps you do not use often from the Dock. Applications are located at
<startup volume>/Applications/
<startup volume>/Applications/Utilities/
I'm not sure what the "pdf" icon is. Could that be the Documents folder? It's located at the same place as Downloads. Just do the same thing.

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