New Union Pacific Depot, Omaha

The first purpose built Union Pacific passenger station in Omaha appears here as a long brick structure occupying the Missouri River bottoms. This depot, completed in 1873, would stand for only six years before its destruction by fire in 1879, leaving few surviving photographic records. From his elevated vantage on the Capitol Hill bluffs, Edric L. Eaton captured the entire complex in a comprehensive prospect impossible to gain from the tangle of tracks at ground level.