Product Description

Before the emergence of the Midwestern industrial centers of Chicago and Kansas City, Cincinnati was the fastest-growing city in what was once considered the West. Throughout its history, Cincinnati's leaders adapted to ever-changing economic forces. Today the city has a diverse collection of institutions that make it a vital cultural center.


This volume, Historic Photos of Cincinnati, captures this journey in still photography from various collections held at Cincinnati Museum Center. The book follows life, government, education, and events spanning two centuries of Cincinnati's history. It captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of hundreds of historic photographs. These images portray the events and people important to Cincinnati's history and the building of a unique and prosperous city.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217218 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 206 pages

Review
Although the story has been told many times and in many ways, Linda Bailey has enriched the black and white pictures with chapter introductions and text to accompany photos that capture the spirit of the city and the social significance of the images. --The Post Living

Nearly 200 archival photographs that feature famous residents, celebrity visitors, and well-known landmarks --Cincinnati Post

About the Author
Since 1985 Linda Bailey has worked as a photograph curator and reference librarian for the Cincinnati Historical Society Library at Cincinnati Museum Center and was previously a reference librarian for the Kenton County Public Library in Kentucky. She has responsibility for managing the library's extensive collection of historic photographs, prints, and lithographs and over the years has helped countless authors and publishers find the historic images and information they need for their projects.
Linda earned a B.A. in history and an M.S. in social studies education from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Linda and her husband have two grown children and live in northern Kentucky.

Customer Reviews

A Treasure!
For the asking price, Historic Photos of Cincinnati is a steal, since someone could have spent years seeking out the photographs gathered for this treasure of a book and not located half of them. Revealing daily life and special events in Cincinnati from the 1860's to the 1960's, this collection can't have enough good things written about it. I only wish photos from the generation before 1860, when the Queen City of the West was billed as "the fastest-growing metropolis on earth," had been included as well, particularly the famous 1840's panoramic daguerreotype of the riverfront on an early Sunday morning, but, hey, what's already in here makes for hours of interesting study. Some of the pictures, such as the 1892 shot of workers in P&G's central office, are especially fascinating for the details they reveal about everyday goings on. That and so many other photos are worth more than a casual glance, since they justify long examinations of the expressions and clothing and hairstyles of the workers, the contents of the desktops, the gas piping that crisscrossed the ceiling, the wire wastepaper baskets, all that and much else which tells more about the environment of a nineteenth-century office than an entire paragraph of description. I particularly liked page thirteen's picture of the militiamen in the 1880's assembled at Music Hall in the wake of the Courthouse Riots, Gatling guns loaded and at the ready, but my favorite image might be on page 131, wherein a half-completed Carew Tower is shown rising above Fifth and Vine, in 1930. Cincinnati is now into its third century, and it's gratifying to see that even as its people move toward the future, the fullness of the past is appreciated and unforgotten.

Awesome Queen City Pix...Great captions
I've lived in Cincy on and off my whole life and this is the best pictorial I've ever seen! Thumbs up to Ms. Bailey for her compilation. We all should thank the existence of the Cincy museum that occupies the old Union Station.