View of the entrance to the ticket office of Chicago and North Western Railway Company and Union Pacific Railroad in Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County), Iowa. The four-story brick building is on a corner and has a turret with metal Sullivanesque geometric forms, a dome and finial, large windows, and awning trim. Address numbers "522" are painted on glass above the door. Signs read: "The North-Western Line Ticket Office, Chicago & North-Western" "Union Pacific, the Overland Route, World's Pictorial Line, Ticket Office" and "C. & N.W. Ry., C. St. P.M. & O. Ry., F.E. & M.V.R.R., S.C. & P.R.R." A bicycle rack is near doors. People, a wagon, and a telephone pole are near a street. Nearby commercial signs read: "Sale Feed and Livery Stable" "Pryor & Son Printers" "Dr. M.W. Bailey, Osteopath" and "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Ticket Office."
Accession number: 86.200.2562; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: plate broken.; Formerly Jackson 4562.; Number: "04562" inked on negative.; Title inked on glass plate.; Title penciled on negative envelope reads: "Council Bluffs, C & N.W. Ry. ticket office."; R7201028126
Chicago and North Western Railway Company--Facilities--1890-1900.; Union Pacific Railroad Company--Facilities--1890-1900.; Council Bluffs (Iowa)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Iowa--Council Bluffs--1890-1900.