Farnam Street, Looking East from the Grand Central Hotel (No. 7)

From a high perch atop the Grand Central Hotel, William H. Jackson surveyed Omaha's main commercial artery. The unpaved carriageway of Farnam Street recedes eastward through nascent city blocks, its storefronts and painted signs documenting a frontier city's explosive growth. This composition, explicitly numbered within Jackson’s systematic survey of Omaha, offers a definitive prospectus of the city just after the transcontinental railroad's completion.