Mt. Adams' incline, Cincinnati, Ohio – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Mt. Adams' incline, Cincinnati, Ohio in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mt. Adams' incline, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati's Mt. Adams incline carried passengers up a steep bluff above the city, linking the downtown streets below with the hilltop neighborhood of Mount Adams. The city's sharp hills made inclined railways a practical necessity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when ordinary streetcars could not manage grades this steep. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced many views of American cities around 1906, recorded the scene on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, preserving how the incline looked at the time.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 3925" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019280. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Inclined railroads.United States--Ohio--Cincinnati. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 800 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62719 |
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