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By Charles Fritz Casey-Leininger, MS (A&S) '89, PhD (A&S) '93 This book illustrates and analyzes the first 80 years of the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, from the founding challenges and successes to its more recent impact. Readers will learn how the society positively benefited the Cincinnati community by advocating legislation and establishing programs designed to protect and improve its clients' quality of life. The book also features historical images and photographs of national and local legal aid movement leaders, as well as newspaper articles from the last eight decades. Order Information:
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by Kevin Grace, UC archivist, and Tom White, UC Libraries staff In 19th century Cincinnati, the cemetery was not always a corpse's final destination. Grave-robbing entrepreneurs sometimes dug up and sold freshly buried bodies to local medical colleges that needed cadavers for anatomy instruction. This questionable but profitable activity lost its market when voluntary body donation became legal, shortly before the turn of the century. Besides their peek into funerary problems of the past, co-authors Grace and White include quaint tidbits about local casket and hearse manufacturing, unusual grave monuments and famous former residents whose bones rest in the city's historic cemeteries. Cincinnati is home to one of the country's earliest garden cemeteries, Spring Grove, and Ohio's oldest African American cemetery, United American on Duck Road. Among UC notables buried in Cincinnati are Charles McMicken, Annie Laws, Jimmy Nippert for whom the UC stadium is named and Jacob Hoffner, the previous owner of the stone lions who were later named Mick and Mack. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738533483
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by Kevin Grace, assistant head of UC archives, and Tom White, head of acquisitions for University Libraries In this venerable Cincinnati neighborhood, diversity rules. Residents, religions and ethnicities have shifted many times since its birth in the early 19th century, creating not only a unique community, but also one with persistent economic and social problems. Its grace is that Over The Rhine continues to enjoy its heritage of glorious architecture as well as a vitality of spirit that influences the entire city's political, civic and religious opinion. To help readers understand and appreciate this distinctive neighborhood, the authors have selected more than 200 historic images -- from early German settlements to more contemporary trademarks, including the ill-fated subway tunnels, Music Hall's symphony and opera greats, Findlay Market's abundant produce and current urban rehabilitation projects. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 073853157X
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by Kevin Grace, (A&S) '76, and Tom White Streetcars and subway construction. Paddle boats and pocket watches. City canals and Model Ts. Glimpses of artifacts like these serve to spark our curiosity about Cincinnati's early years and what life was like for its citizens. Cincinnati Revealed offers plenty of pictorial clues, from jubilant celebrations of a team's victorious season to proper portraits of still-famous cultural and architectural landmarks. Authors Kevin Grace and Tom White tell Cincinnati's story through a unique tour of 200 rarely seen photographs and vintage postcards. From its bawdy beginnings as a frontier town to its rise as an industrial center in the early 20th century, the Queen City is charmingly exposed in this remarkable visual history. Kevin Grace is a UC archivist and historian; Tom White is head of conservation and binding for University Libraries. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738519553
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by Jeff Lueders, Eve '77, '81 and MA (A&S) '98 Growing for nearly 200 years, Green Township may now be Ohio's most populous township. Settled as an agricultural community by predominantly German immigrants, family farms there have mostly given way to numerous housing developments, parks, shopping malls, recreation sites and highways. Green lies west of the City of Cincinnati's northwest suburbs, north of Delhi Township, east of Miami Township and south of Colerain Township. Main communities within its borders are Bridgetown, Covedale, Dent, Mack, Monfort Heights and White Oak. Author Lueders has included a comprehensive mix of photos and memorabilia from the past to help readers visualize the people, commerce and entertainments of long ago. Most were provided by the Green Township Historical Association. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738541176
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by Christine Mersch, MA (A&S) '06 Featuring vintage photos from the archives of the Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society museum, author Christine Mersch honors fallen officers who gave their lives in the line of duty in this "Images of America" book. The work includes detailed information about the city's police force from its early days to the present. Women and minority officers who earned acceptance on the police force also are profiled here. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738550965
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by Christine Mersch, MA (A&S) '06 If not for John Cleves Symmes, who ordered his brother to build a village in 1789 at the South Bend of the Ohio River, there might not be a suburban Cincinnati community known as Delhi. If not for author Mersch and residents who shared their wealth of historic photographs, the pictorial story of Delhi's early years would not have been so charmingly revealed. Mersch has included photos of horse-and-buggy rigs used by turn-of-the-century milkmen, the mailman and Kroger's grocery, as well as the community's flourishing vegetable, fruit and flower growers, many of whom had German roots. There are group pictures from long-ago Delhi schools and churches that show shy or smiling youngsters with their teachers and clergy. In what must have been the custom, whole families choose the front yard as background for their group picture. Readers can also look into the faces of past community leaders and famous folks who once called this close-knit community their home. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738534404
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by Christine Mersch, MA(A&S) '06 An independent city of less than 22,000 residents, Norwood is nearly surrounded by the City of Cincinnati. If there ever were a time that Norwoodites would have been willing to be absorbed by their larger neighbor, it would have been 1986 when the General Motors auto plant closed. Although the lost tax revenue was debilitating, Norwood kept its city status. Readers who browse through Mersch's book will recognize some well-known businesses that got their start or grew their fortunes in Norwood -- where taxes were lower. Among them are Busken Bakery, United Dairy Farmers, Frisch's Big Boy restaurants, Aglamesis ice cream, Heekin Can, LeBlond manufacturing, Zumbiel Packaging and U.S. Playing Card. Early in the 20th century, the city was proud of its numerous parks and playgrounds, churches and religious centers, private and public schools, a Catholic seminary and a Masonic Lodge. A chapter of the Federation of Women's Clubs promoted local history and public libraries. The Norwood Service League provided child day care for working mothers, free health checkups and low-cost apartment rentals, and the city had its own police and fire department services. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738540382
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By Robert Earnest Miller, (A&S) '81, MA (A&S) '86, PhD (A&S) '91 From his own experiences as a youngster and as a parent, Miller deems the county's park system one of the region's "most treasured resources" and "the area's most popular outdoor attraction." With seven million people a year visiting the county parks, numbers do surpass the combined annual total of people who attend Reds and Bengals games and visit Kings Island. What makes the Hamilton County Park District so successful? In a carefully chronicled story, the UC adjunct associate history professor traces the parks' steady development and services from their Great Depression beginnings to the present, all illustrated by photographs. He credits the "amazing foresight and vision," plus hard work and perseverance, of local people who cared enough to preserve land and wildlife habitat threatened by development. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738541141
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by Robert Earnest Miller, (A&S) '81, MA (A&S) '86, PhD (A&S) '91 In the middle of the Great Depression, Cincinnatians were like most other Americans: worried about having a job, feeding their families and losing their homes. They paid little attention to wars and dictators in other parts of the world. That changed dramatically on Dec. 7, 1941, when the United States was attacked by Japan. Miller's book describes the people of the Queen City in the years before, during and after World War II, how they faced each crisis and went on to enjoy the postwar economic boom. Included are poignant photos, some never before published, from the archives of the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. Miller, a UC adjunct associate professor, also served as project historian for the Cincinnati Historical Society exhibit "Cincinnati Goes to War: A Community Responds to WW II." Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738533459
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by Sue Ann Painter, MA (A&S) '73, photographs by Alice Weston, DAAP '79 This impressive 9-by-10-inch tribute to Cincinnati's architectural treasures presents beautiful photographs on every page. More than a visual treat, however, the book tells the story of Cincinnati's important commercial, civic and sacred architecture in chronological order -- from early land developers who saw a chance to create a metropolis in the wilderness to the completion of the University of Cincinnati's Campus Master Plan with the Richard E. Lindner Athletic Center. In a reference to UC's new campus buildings, the author points to the university's leadership in sustainable design, a practice that honors conservation of energy and water, as well as the use of "green" materials in construction. By October '05, UC had registered 13 qualifying projects, more than any other institution or corporation in the U.S. Painter, executive director of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, has been a public historian for the Cincinnati Historical Society for more than a decade. Other contributors to the project include John Hancock, UC professor of architecture, editorial adviser, and Walter Langsam, UC adjunct associate professor, architectural historian. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0821417010
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by David Stradling, assistant professor, history Packed with juicy stories -- from the "chop chop" tempo of early meatpacking dis-assembly lines to worldwide applause for the new Contemporary Arts Center -- Stradling's appealing book will please readers who want a concise, entertaining and easy-to-follow history of the Queen City. Cincinnati's 215-year journey is told through its settlers and immigrants, soap-makers and carriage builders, labor leaders, athletes and scholars. Adding to the charm of this book are 100 seldom-seen historic photographs from the University of Cincinnati Archives and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. Order Information:
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ISBN # : 0738524409
