Students are gathered in a large crowd outside a two-story brick school in this 9-1/4" x 7-1/2" black and white photograph. They are watching men on a fire truck parked in the street in front of the school. Several bare trees stand in the school yard.
Capitol School was located at 821 S. 16th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1886 to 1963. It was torn down in 1963 and replaced with McPhee School. The first part of the building was built in 1886 by contractors Grace and Kelley for a price of $18,477. A new wing of four rooms was built in 1900, at a cost of $13,407.35, by the contractors Cambell Brothers.
