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Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City Guide And Business Mirror Together With Directories Of The Cities Of Covington And Newport Ky. For 1861

Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City Guide And Business Mirror Together With Directories Of The Cities Of Covington And Newport Ky. For 1861

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General Reference21st Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354508154
ISBN13: 9789354508158
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the war reshaped the nation, Cincinnati was already a humming crossroads of people, trades, and river traffic. Open it; the city speaks. Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City Guide And Business Mirror Together With Directories Of The Cities Of Covington And Newport Ky. For 1861 gathers thousands of names into a working map of daily life. Part historical city directory and part civic snapshot, it records cincinnati street addresses, a residential and business index, and detailed merchant and trade listings that trace neighbourhoods, professions, and the commercial pulse of the Ohio. For anyone following family lines or property trails, it is a practical genealogy research resource; for browsers, it is a vivid local history reference to cincinnati ohio 1861 and the intertwined communities of covington and newport ky. Read it as an archival reference collection of the Ohio River valley history at a turning point, capturing civil war era ohio in the language of offices, shops, boarding houses, and public institutions. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Collectors will relish the order of the page; casual readers can dip in anywhere and meet forgotten surnames, vanished streets, early businesses. As a facsimile directory reprint, it belongs beside classic Americana and historic ephemera: more than data, it is a tactile sense of place, ideal for shelves that prize primary sources as much as stories.

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