I tried to imagine some enterprising prisoner producing postcards from pictures photographed from his cell window, but I don't suppose t...

Many cities are built on or across rivers. It's always interesting to see how various cities deal with the river and making it part of t...

There are few similarities beyond the Lincoln name. A lot of things were named after Lincoln. It's a natural that the City of Lincoln, N...

The Union Terminal was built in 1933 and declared an historic landmark in 1977. It was renovated and reopened as the Cincinnati Museum Cente...

This is another one of those metamorphic trade cards, again circa 1880.  Fold the bottom down and the picture is transformed: Here's ...

When the architect who steals my covers goes to Cincinnati later this year, he won't see the Mt. Adams Incline, because it's not th...

Jack from Youngstown, Ohio asked me if I had any postcards from his city. I thought I didn't, but I found one after all, and here it is!...

1913 was not a good year for Middletown, Ohio. This picture doesn't show the half of it; it was really much worse than this. All of the ...

  If only modern shopping malls could be so attractive. The Superior Arcade in Cleveland was built in 1890 and was one of America's firs...

Akron, Ohio had mule-drawn streetcars as early as the 1850s, but these cars were already replaced with electric ones by 1888, which is very ...

I don't know anything about baseball, but that doesn't mean I don't like it. In fact, I like it a lot. I just like it for the w...

The Project for Public Spaces (PPS) included the Cleveland Public Square in its Hall of Shame , because you have to take your life in your o...

This week's installment of Streetcar Sunday takes us to Cleveland, Ohio.  Cleveland once had an extensive streetcar network. In 1904, w...