Oblique street view of the corner Platte County Bank fronting Main Street with adjoining storefronts at Platte Center, Nebraska. The brick bank shows round-arched openings, a central flagpole, and small circular medallions carrying the numerals “19 / 01 / 19 / 01.” Lettering visible on the building includes “PLATTE COUNTY BANK,” “SAFE DEPOSIT,” and a sign within the doorway reading “HOME.” Flanking businesses include a drug store with signage in the window and on the glazing: “PURE / DRUGS.”; a placard for “WALL PAPER / PAINTS . OILS,” and “DRUGS.” Several men sit under a storefront awning; boardwalks and overhead wires line the unpaved street.
The lower right margin carries the caption “MAIN STREET, PLATT CENTER, NEBR.” The image paper is embossed at upper right with an imprint reading “Else Studio / MADISON, NEBR.”; its reverse impression appears on the back. The postcard reverse is printed “POST CARD,” with “CORRESPONDENCE HERE,” “NAME AND ADDRESS HERE,” and an “AZO” stamp box.
Letters “P[?]B” appear on the bank’s parapet to the left and right of the flagpole. The medallions repeat the date 1901.
- Title on card
- MAIN STREET, PLATT CENTER, NEBR.
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- neb, Nebraska, Occupational, Outdoor Scene, Photography, Cranford Rare
- Dimensions
- 5.46 × 3.42 in (138.6 × 86.9 mm)
- Condition
- Several brown stains on the reverse, including a larger blotch right of center. Dark ruling lines border the front image.
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3484
Catalogue details
Location
Platte County Bank, 103 4th Street, Platte Center, Nebraska · Platte Center, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 80% confidence
Building identified: a second copy of this Platte County Bank card (postmarked Platte Center, June 18, 1912) is documented at 103 4th Street, Platte Center — the bank organized 1879, later Platte Center Bank, now Bank of the Valley (Grandma Brunken's Album, citing Virtual Nebraska and Past and Present of Platte County, 1915). Pin stays on the town centre on 4th Street until the building's own coordinates are confirmed. “Main Street, Platt Center, Nebr” was not located; pinned on the town as a placeholder. Looked up as "Platt Center, Nebraska" → Platte Center, Platte Center, NE 68653, USA. Order tried: caption-landmark: "Main Street, Platt Center, Nebr, Nebraska" → only region; caption-town: "Platt Center, Nebraska" → city ✓; Live research: The postcard’s front caption reads “MAIN STREET, PLATT CENTER, NEBR.” and the bank façade in the image carries the stone lettering “PLATTE COUNTY BANK” with 1901 medallions—details that match the surviving bank building documented in Platte Center. History Nebraska notes that Christian M. Gruenther reorganized the Platte Center bank as the Platte County Bank in the late 1890s, confirming the institution and town. A 1915 county history records a 1904 robbery attempt at “the Platte County Bank” in Platte Center, further tying the named bank to this town. Contemporary photographs on Wikimedia Commons identify the same brick corner building in Platte Center as the “Pla
Source: Card caption (town only)
