An expanded reprint of the 1975 edition. It is an in-depth study of Cincinnati Silversmiths, Jewelers, Watch and Clockmakers through 1850. Also listing the more prominent men in these trades from 1851 until 1900 with A new Appendix featuring Ohio silversmiths working outside of Cincinnati compiled from Ms. Beckman's notes by Maurice Meslans with notes by Wm. Erik Voss.

Cincinnati Silversmiths, Jewelers, Watch and Clockmakers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Beckman, Elizabeth

Antiques & Collectibles

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Clifton: Neighborhood and Community in an Urban Setting, a Brief History

History

MILLER, ZANE L.

Shapiro, Henry D.

Americas

In the Ohio River-Great Lakes region, decades of conflict between pioneer settlers and Native American nations erupted into full-scale war in the 1790s. As new communities such as Cincinnati, Columbia, and North Bend were founded throughout the vast Miami Purchase, southern Ohio became the bloody battleground of this nameless war. To counter the ever-present threat of attack, southwestern Ohio's pioneering settlers "forted up" in small stockades and fortified cabins that offered some protection for their families. Today, nothing is visibly left of these vital protective "stations" except a few historic markers or local cemeteries. In this book, you will discover their people, their stories, their locations, and their role in the war that ended with the Treaty of Greeneville in 1795, and how and why some of them developed into the southern Ohio communities that we know today.

Stockades in the Wilderness

Steinle, John

Scamyhorn, Richard

George Joy Titler came to Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1937 to help the United Mine Workers of America labor union organize Harlan County's miners. For decades, the county's coal operators bitterly and violently resisted the UMWA's repeated organizing efforts in this remote southeastern Kentucky region. The coal operators' influence and power permeated the county's government and justice system, and stretched its reach to the Governor's office in Frankfort. The operators paid scores of sheriff deputies to intimidate, threaten, and kill organizers or miners who challenged their economic grip on the county. After four tumultuous years, the UMWA organizers secured for Harlan's miners a fair contract. In this book, Titler recounts the history of Harlan County's labor troubles, and gives a first-hand account of his four harrowing years in "Bloody Harlan," where he and his friends survived car bombings, hotel bombings, machine gun ambushes, and other assassination attempts. His bravery and service on behalf of the miners and their families earned him a moniker befitting his personality: the "Bull of Harlan."

Hell in Harlan

Titler, George Joy

The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, was the preeminent nightclub of the lower Midwest for decades. After struggling financially into the1960s, the club was purchased by new owners in 1969. Over the next several years, the new owners completed numerous improvements, renovations, and additions, creating what they hoped would be the "showplace of the nation." On the evening of May 28, 1977, the lavish club burned to the ground, killing 165 people in the second worst nightclub fire in United States history. Robert Lawson's meticulous study makes clear that the tragedy flowed from the fact that the building had become over time a true firetrap. The renovations and additions completed since 1969 were dominated by multiple fire code violations and very significant design failures for a building that was destined to be occupied by huge crowds of people. Undoubtedly, a more complete compliance with state laws on fire safety would have averted the disaster. No single individual was responsible for the building's shortcomings.The firetrap in the nightclub, which ultimately resulted in the tragic death of 165 people, was clearly created by a combination of personal, professional, and legal failures by owners of the facility, local and state fire officials and inspectors, and others. Looking back, which is always easier than looking forward, it is clear that the real tragedy at Beverly Hills is that very little additional care and caution was needed to prevent some if not all of the deaths that occurred there. Beverly Hills: Anatomy of a Nightclub Fire was intended by the author to be an accurate historical account of the whole tragedy and not a sensational description of the event nor a polemic indictment of responsibility. It lays out in careful and complete detail every incremental step in the creation of the firetrap, describes the start and spread of the fire and evacuation efforts, and concludes with a description of the important legal proceedings that followed the fire.

Beverly Hills: Anatomy of a Nightclub Fire

Lawson, Robert G.

The Seventh Air Force was created in October of 1940 to provide air defense for the Hawaiian Islands. The 7th was involved in most of the major engagements of the Pacific Theater, from the initial attack on Pearl Harbor to the final Battle of Okinawa. The photographs in this book follow the men and machines of the 7th to the final days of combat. They illustrate the brutality of war but also the courage, humor, and humanity of the thousands of American men and women who served in the 7th. The name index at the end of this book lists people in the photographs along with their current (1947) addresses.

Wings Over the Pacific

Fern, Stewart

Fern, Lee

Originally published in 1990 and long out-of-print, this story of the Harlan County coal wars of the 1930s is available again. It presents the halting but steady drive by the UMWA to unionize Harlan's miners in the face of intimidation, violence, and outright murder.

Bloody Harlan

Taylor, Paul F.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

n 1794, Revolutionary War veteran Christian Waldschmidt settled on the Little Miami River just east of Cincinnati and founded a community called New Germany. In 1804, he built his home which included a store. Waldschmidt actively encouraged settlement and New Germany grew to include a church, school, sawmill, blacksmith shop, distillery, and a paper mill.During the Civil War, the grounds and house became part of Camp Dennison, a Union training center and hospital post named for Governor William Dennison. The main house, now known as Waldschmidt House, served as headquarters for General Joshua Bates.Following the Civil War and into the twentieth century, the house fell into disuse and disrepair. In 1941, the Ohio Society Daughters of the American Revolution assumed ownership of the property and undertook its restoartion. In 1953, the property was dedicated and opened to the public as a museum.

History of Camp Dennison 1796-1956

Sloane, Mary Rahn

In 1842 Gillium Hopper, Jr., alias "Dock Brown," arrived in Pine Knob, Grayson County, Kentucky, along with his brother Pinkney and his father Gillium Hopper, Sr., alias "John Brown." Another brother, Moses, joined them from Indiana. For the next nine years, these fugitive criminals continued their murderous ways. Dock Brown married Emily Ross, in the process killing her brother and eventually killing his own father to cover up the crime. The "Browns" robbed travelers, murdering them and depositing their bodies in nearby Big Mouth Cave. In the end, the remaining "Brown" borthers killed each other and the Kentucky saga came to a violent end.

Dock Brown: Outlaw of Grayson County, Kentucky

Haynes, William R.

In 1926 Wendell Phillips Dabney published his first book, Cincinnati's Colored Citizens, which was an unprecedented review of the city's most successful and important African American citizens. Never before had a publication marshaled together such an immense amount of historical, sociological, statistical, and biographical information about Cincinnati's black community. Its nine chapters, well illustrated with photographs, provided a wealth of information about black schools, churches, businesses, property owners, benevolent organizations, and much more. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens remains today an important piece of Cincinnati's rich African American heritage and a critical resource for those interested in the history of the Queen City.

Cincinnati's Colored Citizens

Dabney, Wendell Phillips

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