Author: Charles Cist
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Category : Cincinnati
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Charles Cist
Publisher:
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Category : Cincinnati
Languages : en
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Author: Charles Cist
Publisher:
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Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Author: Charles Cist
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334745508
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Excerpt from Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851 A well-defined circle of hills - three miles in its diameter, and of remarkable regularity of outline, bisected east and west by the river Ohio, and north and south by Mill creek and Licking river marks the site of Cincinnati, as its precise centre. The Ohio, at this point, makes in its course a bold, abrupt sweep, in the immediate curve of which, and on its northern edge, lies the city, which is, therefore, when approached by water, hardly visible until its entire panorama bursts upon the eye. The territory it embraces, includ ing its north-east suburb - Fulton - may be not inaptly compared, in shape, to the old-fashioned harp, the curved side of which is formed by the Ohio; the upper edge, by Mill creek; and the straight edge, by the northern line of the city, brought down at the north-east at an acute angle to the base of the instrument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Charles Cist
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425543051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Charles 1792-1868 Cist
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372375446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Jeremy Zallen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.

Author: Francis Perego Harper
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Francis Perego Harper
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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