Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities
Author: Kat Klockow
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
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Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities Issue 1
Author: Kat Klockow
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781960845009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities is a 36-page comic anthology exploring the paranormal lore of 6 locations in the Cincinnati region. The stories range from hauntings and cryptids to urban legends. The comic about Sedamsville Rectory is based on actual paranormal experiences that editor Kat Klockow had investigating there!Stories featured are the Mermaids of the Ohio River, Cincinnati Music Hall, Loveland Frogman, Satan's Hallow, Loveland Castle, and the Sedamsville Rectory.
Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities Issue 2
Author: Kat Klockow
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781960845016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second installment of the series, the Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities returns to tell more tales of the strange and spooky around the Cincinnati region. Six new stories range from hauntings and cryptids to urban legends featuring the Crosswick Snake, the hauntings of the Sorg Opera House, Crybaby Bridges, the supernatural history of the Magic 8-Ball, and the Chillicothe Gazette's resident phantom.
Cincinnati Curiosities
Author: Greg Hand
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-11-14
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1439676674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the eccentric side of yesterday's Queen City Cincinnatians today wrap themselves in a comforting blanket of serene conformity, soothed by the myth that the Queen City has always been a bland, somewhat Germanic, little backwater. History tells us otherwise. Old Cincinnati was a pretty strange place. UFOs? Witchcraft? Sea Monsters? Occult societies? Public executions? All very common in Old Cincinnati. Over its history, this burgeoning river metropolis pursued the unusual, the sensational and the controversial. Cincinnati was big - among the ten largest U.S. cities. And it was rude and crude, still shaking off the dust from its years as a frontier outpost. Much of the popular nightlife then would be illegal today. Buckle up as author Greg Hand leads a rambunctious tour through the old, weird Cincinnati.
The Museum
Author: Michael S. Sharpiro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1990-07-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0313387885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical bibliography of museum studies comprises an organized collection of essays on the various types of museums--art, natural history, history, science and technology, and folk--and on general aspects--collections, education, exhibitions, etc.--that cut across the media. Most of the essays are cogent, substantial if not comprehensive, and clear. The editor has taken care to see that they follow a similar format of historical essay followed by a full bibliography of items discussed. Library Journal As the number of museums in the United States has grown to more than 6500 in this century, the museum profession has experienced similar growth. In addition to academic training and accreditation programs in the field, an expanding body of literature on museum history, philosophy, and functions has evolved, little of which has received the critical attention it deserves. This reference volume serves as an up-to-date guide to this wealth of literature, identifying and evaluating works that introduce the general reader, the museum studies student, and the beginning professional to the history, philosophy, and functions of museums. The volume presents a series of informative, historical outlines and critical bibliographic essays on all aspects of museum history, philosophy, and functions. Contributors treat such subjects as art museums, natural history museums, science and technology museums, history museums, collections, exhibition, education and interpretation, and the public and museums. Each chapter consists of an introductory historical narrative, a survey of sources, and a bibliographic checklist that contains cited and additional sources. A set of appendices include a geographically organized bibliography of museum directories, a guide to archives and special collections, and a selective list of museum-related periodicals. The book concludes with a comprehensive general subject index. This work will be an important reference tool for museum professionals and cultural historians, as well as for courses in museum studies. It will also be a valuable addition to both academic and public libraries.
Killer Colt
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2024-04-02
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1504094263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-the-room account of John Colt’s scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Review). In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John’s rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt’s rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary revolver. With a killing that made headlines around the nation, John Colt became a cultural touchstone whose shocking villainy inspired and provoked such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Unlike his brother, John lived a nomadic existence, bouncing from one job to another. His one distinction, writing a reference accounting book, would play a part in his fall from grace. For in New York City, on September 17, 1841, John murdered printer Samuel Adams with a hatchet during a heated argument over proceeds from book sales. A media circus ensued, galvanizing the penny press, which printed lurid headlines and gruesome woodcut illustrations. The standing-room-only trial created unforgettable moments in legal history, including such dramatic evidence as Samuel Adams’s decomposed head. The verdict and its aftermath would reverberate throughout the country and beyond, giving John Colt lasting infamy. “[Schechter] leads us through Colt’s trial with such precision that you can smell the cigar smoke in the courtroom. . . . Killer Colt succeeds in making us care about this story now by showing why it mattered to so many people then.” —HistoryNet
Rookwood and the American Indian
Author: Anita J. Ellis
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0821417398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nation's premier private collection of Rookwood art pottery featuring American Indian portraiture is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum from October 2007 to January 2008. Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection is a remarkable exhibition catalogue that will be of interest well beyond the exhibition because of its unique subject matter. Fifty-two pieces produced by the Rookwood Pottery Company are showcased, many accompanied by black-and-white photographs of the American Indians portrayed by the ceramic artist. In addition, the catalogue includes a brief biography of each artist as well as curators' comments about the Rookwood pottery and the Indian apparel seen in the portraits. The catalogue also presents two essays. The first, "Enduring Encounters: Cincinnatians and American Indians to 1900," by ethnologist and co-curator Susan Labry Meyn, describes American Indian activities in Cincinnati from the time of the first settlers to 1900 and relates these events to national policy, such as the 1830 Indian Removal Act. Rookwood and the American Indian, by art historian Anita J. Ellis, concentrates on Rookwood's fascination with the American Indian and the economic implications of producing that line. Rookwood and the American Indian blends anthropology with art history to reveal the relationships between the white settlers and the Native Americans in general, between Cincinnati and the American Indian in particular, and ultimately between Rookwood artists and their Indian friends.
Weird and Wonderful
Author: Andrea Stulman Dennett
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1997-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0814718868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
A Cabinet of Curiosities
Author: Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelic Hunters
Author: James E. Snead
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0191055891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, and developing their own ideas about antiquity. They experienced the new country as a "place with history" reflected in material traces that became important touch points for scientific knowledge, but for American cultural identity as well. Relic Hunters traces the encounter with American antiquities from 1812 to 1879. This encompasses the period when archaeology took root in the United States: it also spans the "deep settlement" of the Midwest and sectional strife both before and after the Civil War. At the center of the story is the first iconic find of American archaeology, known as "the Kentucky Mummy." Discovered deep in a cavern, this dessicated burial became the subject of scholarly competition, traveling exhibitions, and even poetry. The book uses the theme of the Kentucky Mummy to structure the broader story of the public and American antiquities, a tour that leads through rural museums, mound excavations, lecture tours, shady deals, and ultimately into the famous attic of the Smithsonian Institution. Ultimately, Relic Hunters is a story of the American landscape, and of the role of archaeology in shaping that place. Derived from letters, memoranda, and reports found in more than a dozen archives, this is a unique account of a critical encounter that shaped local and national identity in ways that are only now being explored.
