Description: Engraving of the Cincinnati Exposition Hall in the 1870's. The building is also known as Saengerfest Hall or Music Hall. The Venetian Gothic music hall was built by Hannaford,Samuel, & Sons. The land was originally purchased in 1818 for $3,200 at the West Side of Elm Street and North of 12th Street (14th street). In 1821 the building was used as Ohio's first insane asylum, later the area was used as an orphan asylum beginning in 1832. Later, during a cholera outbreak the building was used to house diseased people and the surrounding area was used as a cemetery to bury the deceased. Beginning in 1859 the surrounding area was called Elm Street Park and it remained a place for recreation until 1870 when the hall was used as an exposition hall. During the years 1870-1876 when the hall was used for industrial expositions the building was able to accommodate up to 8 acres of industrial and horticulture displays. Exposition Hall was a huge wooden structure that was 250 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 80 feet tall. In 1876 the hall was converted to a music hall with no stage. It was not until 1890 when the hall installed a proscenium theater stage so that performers had a proper environment for their acts. The hall is currently still used for musical performances and it is renowned around the world for its architectural design and strangely known for its supposed paranormal activity. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_029
Subjects: Cincinnati Music Hall; Historic buildings--Ohio--Cincinnati--Pictorial works; Horticulture buildings--Ohio--Cincinnati--1870-1880.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 Main Street, Mt. Auburn." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_23_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 Race Street from Ninth." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_29_01
Subjects: Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 From 1700 Hughes Street." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_30_01
Subjects: Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cincinnati streets." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_10_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 View Court, Mt. Auburn." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_31_01
Subjects: Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Automobiles
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., 2100 block on Van Lear Street." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_16_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1937, this photograph shows an ally in a Cincinnati neighborhood in Hamilton County, Ohio. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_07_01
Subjects: Alleys--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Central Business Districts; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "City Hall Tower and Clock. Taken from Eighth and Plum" Located 801 Plum St., City Hall occupies the entire block from 8th to 9th Sts, and from Plum St to Central Ave. A smaller building housed city council on the same site from 1852. Hannaford's Romanesque revival was dedicated May 13, 1893. Large stained glass windows by the New York firm Pottier Stymus & Co. depict the benevolent dictator Cincinnatus, the trials of early settlers, and Cincinnati as the Queen City of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Catawba Wine". Samuel Hannaford and Sons remains the most prolific and widely-studied Cincinnati architectural firm; a company register from the 1930s lists 1000 buildings completed, and Hannaford family members were active from 1857 to the post-WWII period. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_041_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Government buildings; Ohio Government; ; Cincinnati--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hannaford, Samuel, 1835-1911
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated June 9, 1937, this photograph shows an unidentified alley in Cincinnati, Ohio, east of Pendleton Street. This alley is probably today's Dandridge Street. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_12_01
Subjects: Alleys--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Central Business Districts; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 Leroy Court." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_20_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Automobiles
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Cincinnati City Hall building was designed by Samuel Hannaford in a Romanesque style that incorporated massive stones, arches and a tower. The building was dedicated on May 13, 1893 to large fanfare from the city. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_023_1
Subjects: City halls--United States; Architecture--Ohio; Government buildings; Ohio Government; ; Cincinnati--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hannaford, Samuel, 1835-1911
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)