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Photo of the old post office building in Nebraska City
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carol M. Highsmith Archive
PHOTO · 1980

Nebraska City, Nebraska — the Old Post Office building

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith notes that this building's lobby was a social gathering place. It was built as the town post office, which Nebraska City got after wildly exaggerating its population. The photo was taken between 1980 and 2006.

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Date
1980
Place
Nebraska City Old Post Office (Farmers Bank Building)
Credit
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carol M. Highsmith Archive
Rights
No known restrictions on publication. <p>The Library of Congress does not&nbsp;own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. </p> <p>Ultimately, it is the researcher's obligation to assess copyright or other use restrictions and obtain permission from third parties when necessary before publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. </p> <p>For information about reproducing, publishing, and citing material from this collection, as well as access to the original items, see: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/482_high.html">Carol M. Highsmith - Rights and Restrictions Information</a> </p>

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