bigfoot:

Postcard (1913)

wonderful-strange:

Downtown parking lot. Cincinnati, Ohio. 1973.

cincylibrary:

Traveling by makeshift boat on Spring Grove Avenue, circa 1913, from our Ohio River Floods Collection.

By the way, here’s what the former Liberty Theater looks like today.

shanestroud:

Crosley Field, 1950’s by DanO’Connor on Flickr.

cincylibrary:

The 6th Street Market House, undated photograph from lantern slide, circa 1910.

The 6th Street Market extended for two blocks along 6th Street in downtown Cincinnati, from Elm Street to Central Avenue. This building, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons and built in 1895, housed 64 meat, poultry, and dairy stands, and, at its peak, had over a hundred market stands surrounding it. A smaller flower market building, the Jabez Elliot Flower Market, which opened in 1894 and was also designed by Hannaford & Sons, stood nearby. The Flower Market building was demolished in 1950; the Market House in 1960.

From “Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors,” published in 1943: “On Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays the SIXTH STREET MARKET, reading from Elm St. to Central Ave. on Sixth St. is filled with sights, sounds and odors characteristic of open-air produce stands and milling shoppers. Two German-style market houses stand in the middle of the broad street; one has meat, poultry, and dairy products stalls, and the other bright flower shops. The makeshift kiosks lining both sides of the street, with their pyramids of melons, beans, berries, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables, the fast patter of vendors, and the snooping and haggling of shoppers, make the market a colorful place.”

cincylibrary:

One of our favorite views of Cincinnati, circa 1955.

(We’re basing our date estimate on that sweet station wagon on the bottom left. We think it’s a 1955 Ford Country Squire.)

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“Souvenir der 17 Jaehrlichen Convention des Vereinigten Staaten Braumeister-Bundes Abgehalten in Cincinnati, Ohio, September, 1905.” Cincinnati, S. Rosenthal & Co.,1905. WORLDCAT

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Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order Of. ‘Souvenir Program, Benefit of Cincinnati Lodge No. 5, B. P. O. E. Music Hall, Monday, March 23, 1903’. Cincinnati, Ebbert & Richardson, 1903.

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Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order Of. ‘Souvenir Program, Benefit of Cincinnati Lodge No. 5, B. P. O. E. Music Hall, Monday, March 23, 1903’. Cincinnati, Ebbert & Richardson, 1903.

cincylibrary:

Ad from “The City of Cincinnati and Its Resources,” published in 1891.