Passenger Transfer Co.'s Office, Corner 9th & Farnham (No. 9)

From an upper window at Ninth and Farnham streets, the Jackson Brothers documented a scene of provincial commerce on the precipice of change. The office of the Passenger Transfer Company represents the provisional infrastructure for the transcontinental railroad in the years before the completion of the Union Pacific bridge. Organized to coordinate the coach and ferry crossing of the Missouri River, the company and its modest building would be superseded within a few years, leaving a record of a fleeting logistical necessity.