Bird's-Eye View from Capitol Hill, No. 3 (No. 27)

From the newly cleared site of Nebraska’s first territorial capitol, the Jackson Brothers survey the young city of Omaha. Their camera looks north-northeast across a dense fabric of wood-frame structures toward the Missouri River bottoms and the Iowa bluffs on the horizon. This specific vantage affords a narrow temporal window between the capitol’s 1869 demolition and the start of construction on Omaha High School in 1872. The composition is the third in a numbered sequence documenting the city’s topography from this public ground.