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
Harpers Weekly Published this view
of Cincinnati,
with lots of detail of the Covington area, on June 24, 1876.
It was drawn by Schell and Hogan, from
a sketch by C. A. Vanderhoof.
An early painting by John Caspar Wild, c. 1835
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| "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. |
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Early painting from Devou
Looking west
Bird's
Eye Views of Covington, 1908
Bird's Eye View of Covington & Newport
Aerial from Cincinnati, 1930
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.
Covington Aerial, 1959
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Aerial Views of Bavarian Breweries |
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left, Bavarian Brewery and the neighborhood. That's South Main Street running left to upper right; Dixie Highway at the bottom. |
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Right, that's St. Patrick's Church and School. The church faced Philadelphia Street; the school's on the s.w. corner of 4th & Philadelphia. Bavarian's property is just barely in the shot at the far right. |
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Left, while these are photos taken for Bavarian, note that the plant is barely visible in the lower right. Also, understand that literally every building in these middle two images no longer stands. |
| Right, Bavarian Plant #1 is seen at the bottom, and Pike Street is seen at the top. |
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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
A photo of Cincinnati and Covington, circa 1866
Actually Cincinnati, but a mate of
sorts to
the above image.
This one's from a daguerreotype from 1848, taken from Newport
That's the Public Landing on the far
left. This is two miles of riverfront.
