Illustrated Cincinnati A Pictorial Hand-Book of the Queen City Ohio 1875

A complete facsimile of Illustrated Cincinnati: A Pictorial Hand-Book of the Queen City, written by D. J. Kenny and published by Robert Clarke & Co. of Cincinnati in 1875 — the city's best-known nineteenth-century view book, promising on its title page "over three hundred and twenty engravings and a new and complete map." This edition reproduces the original in its entirety from a high-resolution scan of the University of California Libraries copy, and includes the large folding "New Map of Cincinnati and Suburbs," prepared expressly for the book by Strobridge & Co., with its key to more than fifty points of interest — railroad depots, hotels, theatres, parks, libraries, and the inclined planes — reproduced from a separate example of the original edition.

Kenny leads the reader through the Queen City at the height of its river-city golden age: its architecture, manufactures, and trade; its social, literary, scientific, and charitable institutions; its churches, schools, and colleges; and the principal points of interest for visitor and resident alike, closing with an account of the most attractive suburbs. The wood engravings deliver street-by-street pictorial coverage — street scenes, public buildings, church spires, storefronts, and hillside villas — making this the most complete visual record of Victorian Cincinnati ever put between covers.

An essential reference for local historians, house historians, and collectors of Cincinnati and Ohio history.

374 pages. 6.14" x 9.21". Black and white. Paperback.

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