Looking North from Forest Hill, West Covington
 (before it was known as West Covington, this area was named Economy)

 

An early aerial of West Covington

 

An early painting by John Caspar Wild, c.  1835

 

 

"View of Cincinnati from Covington, Kentucky" c. 1851.  Oil painting by Robert S. Duncanson. "View of Cincinnati, Ohio" by J. W. Steel, from a daguerreotype in Graham's Magazine, 1848

Duncanson, a noted Afro-American painter, changed a few details from the earlier image:  In the Steel image, there are a couple admiring the view, in the Duncanson, it's a pair of laborers; in the Steel, there's a white man with a rifle, while the Duncanson shows a black man with a scythe;  there's a white woman hanging out wash in the Steel, but a black woman in the Duncanson.

 

Early painting from Devou

 

Looking west

 


  Bird's Eye Views of Covington, 1908

 

Bird's Eye View of Covington & Newport

 

 

These are only the left and right edges of a much larger engraving of the Cincinnati
river front in 1900 by famous counterfeiter Charles Ulrich.  Read more about it, here.

 

The C&O Bridge, Along the Ohio River, January, 1956
caution - this is a very detailed, but very large (300k) image

 

Covington Aerial
(the white lines show the proposed IRS Center)
This is a larger than average image!

 

 

I-75 Construction - looking south
Yet another larger than average image!

 

Aerial View of Covington, 1968

 

Aerial of Covington Riverfront

 

circa 1970

 

The Jefferson Street Exit

 

Aerial View, circa 1935

 

Aerial View of Covington, from Devou Park

 

Bird's-eye View of Covington, Kentucky, circa 1930

 

 

Covington (older than you think!)

 

Covington Riverfront, 1959

 

Final Construction of Brent Spence Bridge

 

Looking south, from the Suspension Bridge, 1940

 

Aerial of Covington  Riverfront

 

  

More recent aerials of Covington

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