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Otoe County Courthouse | Nebraska City, Nebraska

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Otoe County Courthouse | Nebraska City, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Slowly nibbling Ciro Guerra’s film Los viajes del viento (“The Wind Journeys”) with a cup of espresso cortado while editing photos of Otoe County Courthouse in a 30-degree icy winter night. Next up is Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz accompanied by Wendy Sutter’s performance of...

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Tifereth Israel Synagogue | Lincoln, Nebraska

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Tifereth Israel Synagogue | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The Tifereth Israel Synagogue, located on South 18th Street in downtown Lincoln, was dedicated in 1913, serving the Orthodox Jewish congregation in the area. The building, currently functioning as a rental apartment space, features the Star of David on the facade. This Neo-Classical structure was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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Ward-Meade Mansion at Old Prairie Town | Topeka, Kansas

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Ward-Meade Mansion at Old Prairie Town | Topeka, Kansas | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   It was three o’clock in this murky morning and I was trying to get into my dreams by slowly chewing through The Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz. "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wing in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Lorenz asked and the question kept perking me up. I...

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Farmers Bank | Nebraska City, Nebraska

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Farmers Bank | Nebraska City, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Farmers Bank in Nebraska City occupies an old Richardsonian Romanesque building on South 8th Street in Nebraska City, Nebraska. The structure, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1886 mainly as a post office with a federal court room in the second level of the building. After being purchased by Farmers Bank...

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Old City Hall | Lincoln, Nebraska

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Old City Hall | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The Old City Hall building, located in downtown Lincoln, was constructed as Lincoln’s first U.S. Post Office and Courthouse from 1874 to 1879 with Alfred Mullet and William Appleton Potter, Mulett’s successor, serving as project’s supervising architects from the U.S. Treasury. It functioned as Lincoln’s City Hall from 1906 to 1969, housing city agencies such as...

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Nebraska State Historical Society

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Nebraska State Historical Society | Lincoln, NE | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The Nebraska State Historical Society was founded under the leadership of former governor Robert W. Furnas in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information . . . and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history." It became an official state institution in 1883 and then a state agency in 1994. The society’s...

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