Thousands of photographs documenting life in Cincinnati's streets from the 1920s to the 1950s.
A few photographs from the collection.
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The Cincinnati subway and street improvements photographic negatives and prints are part of the Archives and Rare Books Library’s Ohio Network Collection in the state’s Local Government Records Program, a diverse body of materials that document official government activity from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
The Cincinnati subway and street changes archive, which also includes construction reports, householders’ damage claims, blueprints, minutes, photographs and correspondence in addition to the negatives and prints, is used by researchers and students studying urban planning and development, the history of Cincinnati, American history, civil engineering and political science.
Source: UC Libraries — Historic Cincinnati Subway and Street Images
This image is a part of University of Cincinnati’s Digital Resource Commons Library. It is part of a digitized collection of over 8,000 photographic negatives and prints documenting various street projects from the late 1920s through the 1950s. The collection includes construction reports, householders’ damage claims, blueprints, minutes, construction images as well as both interior and exterior shots of private residences and city scenes.
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Thousands of these photographs haven’t been placed on the map yet. If you can recognize a street or intersection, help pin down where each one was taken.