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    Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic Heritage of the Queen City
    Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic Heritage of the Queen City
    Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic Heritage of the Queen City
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    Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic Heritage of the Queen City

    By Kevin Grace and Tom White

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    In nearly 200 rarely seen photographs and vintage postcards, discover Cincinnati as you've never seen it before.


    Since its inception in 1788, Cincinnati has evolved from a brawling pioneer town to a thriving Midwest metropolis, experiencing rapid growth and unprecedented social and technological change. Highlighted in this volume are the city's spectacular architectural achievements, its centers of culture and learning, its hubs of industry and transportation, its legendary sports tradition, its diverse neighborhoods, and, above all, the spirit of its citizenry. Through these striking images, together with the insightful text, authors Kevin Grace and Tom White take the reader on a unique visual tour of this historic river city. It is a tour well worth taking.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateApr 22, 2002
    ISBN9781439613405
    Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic Heritage of the Queen City
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    Kevin Grace

    Author Kevin Grace is archivist adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches courses on sports and society. He is a member of the North American Society for Sport History, the Society for American Baseball Research, and other professional organizations. He has also been a consultant to both ESPN and the History Channel.

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    • 5/5
      A great collection of photos and info about the Queen City
    • 4/5
      A picture book of Cincinnati, concentrating primarily on buildings and structures. The pictures are mostly of the individual buildings and not skylines, so keep a map handy if you want to get some context for the buildings. The downtown buildings are labelled nicely, but where the outlying structures are might be a little more up in the air. Still, lots of good pictures of hospitals, churches, and parks through the city's history.

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    Cincinnati Revealed - Kevin Grace

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    INTRODUCTION

    Cincinnati is a river town. Or, at least it is in the perception of most people who know it. But Cincinnati is also a city of hills and extended bottomland along the Ohio River. It is a southern city, a northern city, and a midwestern city—depending on one’s approach to geography, history, trade, and cultural heritage. It is a thriving metropolis often caught in the throes of trying to redevelop itself, a city that experiences racial problems and genuinely tries to remedy them, a hometown of culture and conservatism, of innovation, bad weather, spectacular architecture, sports that are by turns woeful and exhilarating, and its own distinctive festivals and food. In short, Cincinnati, Ohio, is a modern American city.

    A favorite description of Cincinnati’s early frontier days is provided by the 1792 impression of Johann Heckewelder, a German traveler:

    It is overrun with merchants and traders. Idlers are plentiful here, and according to the assertion of respectable people, are a multitude like the Sodomites. Although this town, according to description, is chiefly filled with bad people, yet it keeps a minister.

    Heckewelder’s opinion perfectly carries the fact of Cincinnati’s beginnings: it was a brawling pioneer town on the westernmost edge of the country. The Ohio River gave the town a purposeful location, and it grew from there. Because of its location in the frontier of the Northwest Territory and its subsequent development, Cincinnati attracted a variety of new citizens of every racial, ethnic, and religious persuasion. And this variety is what has made the Cincinnati of today. From its incorporation in 1788, and its place as a major city in the new state of Ohio in 1803, Cincinnati drew together the 19th-century likes of industrialist Miles Greenwood, book publisher Robert Clarke, educator William Holmes McGuffey, music conductor and impresario Theodore Thomas, keen medical doctor Daniel Drake, and manufacturers William Procter and James Gamble. It was this broadness of types that made a rich history out of good and bad, mistakes and successes, men and women, churchgoers and saloon denizens. Cincinnati has been a city with a river highway, a Porkopolis of pigs driven to market, a railroad town carrying its products south and west, a 20th-century city of interstates and airports, and now a 21st-century metropolis of internet and communications. It’s great stuff.

    So how does one tell Cincinnati’s story in pictures now that it is in its third century? Of course, it’s been done many times and remarkably well by several writers, so this book has to be a little bit different. The tale of the Queen City has to be told in an accessible way, in a manner that is at once familiar and revealing.

    In the pages of photographs that follow, the earliest dates from the age of ambrotypes before the Civil War and the last from just a generation ago. A great many of the images are from vintage postcards, especially dating from the national mania of producing and collecting these cards from 1900 to World War II. It is in these pictures that one can see the pride of place in Cincinnati, the buildings that have changed or disappeared, and the sense of a coherent city. The other images are perhaps a little more documentary in nature, as they provide a visual catalog of events and people.

    The chapters serve to outline this approach. Cityscape provides a cogent look at downtown, at its evolution in size and style. It is in downtown that one sees the familiar landmarks: Fountain Square, Findlay Market, the shops and stores. Chapter Two, Taking Care of Business, examines the development of commerce in Cincinnati, something that has always been hotly debated: Is this what we are about as a community? How does business contribute to the quality of life? The next chapter, Getting From Here to There, visually explores how Cincinnatians have built the river into local life, how political and planning folly attempted a subway system, how transportation has encompassed trolleys and inclines, railroads and highways.

    Neighborhoods looks at the core of life in Cincinnati, the definition of place. Benefactors and Scalawags is, it is hoped, an honest look at not only those citizens who have worked to improve and enrich life, but those people whose colorful characters have added drama and embarrassment, and, maybe, a little fun as well. After all, those who serve time also enrich our lives. Chapter Six, The Sporting Life, portrays a major part of Cincinnati. Sports have always been important to the quality of life here, and they have given Cincinnatians equal moments of cheers and boos, and appreciation of the strength of the human spirit.

    Leisurely Times shows Cincinnatians enjoying themselves in parks and zoos. Not all of this history is sweetness and light: Coney Island was segregated until the 1950s, and Cincinnatians of every race should know that fact. In the city’s history, race relations are volatile and are still a focus for improvement. Not every one has—or has yet—been given access to all that is Cincinnati. Mind, Body, and Spirit looks at how Cincinnatians have been educated, how souls have been soothed, how bodies have been healed, and in the case of the Spring Grove image, how they

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