An early painting by John Caspar Wild, c. 1835	Early painting from what would become Devou Park	The Mouth of the Licking, 1846

 

1837

 

View of Cincinnati Ohio from Forest Hills, Kentucky by Thomas W. Whitley, c. 1840's

 

An 1853 painting by Edwin Beyer

 

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 is 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. Read more about Duncanson at this site (Wikipedia) and this site (Taft Museum).

 

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.	A painting from 1855. Notice the number and variations of the river traffic - steam boats, a steam ferry, at least two kinds of flatboats - and a large number of steamers on the Cincinnati side.

 

July 4, 1857

“Looking across the river, which at low water mark is, perhaps, a third of a mile wide, to the Kentucky side, one sees, on the right bank of the Licking River, the city of Covington, a mass of black factories and tall chimneys, from which smoke is always ascending, and spreading out over the valley.” from Captain Willard Glazier's Peculiarities of American Cities, 1885.

1872, note completed Suspension Bridge

 

1876

 

Covington Aerial, c. 1878

 

         

These are the far left and far right end, only, of a much larger engraving of the Cincinnati
river front in 1900 by infamous counterfeiter and engraver Charles Ulrich. Read more about it, at this site.

 

Peaselburg, c. 1900
From a Facebook post by Arlina Lag

 

Looking West	Covington and Newport, 1910	from Cincinnati, 1930

 

    

Bird's Eye Views of Covington, 1908
right, We know that the hill in the foreground was at one time a vineyard, and the
big red brick building below was a distillery.

 

Early Aerial of Covington	A 1914 Panorama from a Brian Schlosser Facebook post	from "De Vou," c. 1910

 

1922. Orient yourself with St. Mary's at the top of the image		1922. Orient yourself with the old Short Way (12th St) bridge at the bottom of the image

 

                   

Aerial Views of Covington, c. 1930's

 

from Devou Park	Bird's eye view of Covington, c. 1935	1930	1937, from a Magic Lantern slide from Facebook post by Robert Richshafer

 

Paintings from Devou	by Charles Meurer, c. 1932

 

Looking westerly	After I-75, but before the IRS Building From a Facebook post by Jim Steiner

 

St. Patrick's was on the east side of Philadelphia, between 4th and 5th. c. 1967. From a Facebook post by Chuck Eilerman	June, 1939. That's St. Aloysius on the right; John G. Carlisle toward the right. From a Facebook post by Judy Marqua Huth

 

Various aerial views, c. WWII

 

Looking south, from the Suspension Bridge, c. 1940		c. 1940's

 

Construction of I-75. Highland Avenue on the left, Cov Cath in the top center. Note they're building a Jefferson Street exit. From a Facebook post by Fred Hill

 

1953	Real color Aerial from 1954 Thanks to Dr. Richard Cardosi for this one	Covington Riverfront, 1959

 

c. 1960's - Fort Washington Way is under construction

 

Downtown Covington, c. 1959	The C&O Bridge, Along the Ohio River, January, 1956	Aerial from 1959

 

Before I-75
From a Facebook post by Dr. Richard Cardosi

 

Covington Aerials, c. 1960's

   

A twin pair of views, north and south, 1960

 

Dixie Highway in the extreme lower right

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 images no longer stands.			Bavarian Plant #1 is seen at the bottom, and Pike Street is seen at the top.

 

Bavarian Brewery and the neighborhood. That's South Main Street running left to upper right; Dixie Highway at the bottom.			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.

 

Covington Aerial (the white lines show the proposed IRS Center)		I-75 Construction - looking south Note Jefferson Avenue exit

 

Aerial of The Cut, before it was straightened.
From a Facebook post by John Snyder

Short aerial video Covington

 

1967
From a Facebook post by Kurt Hultquist

 

   

Aerial View of Covington, 1968

 

c. 1980's	1973	c. 1960 From a Facebook post by Donald-Diann Rogers	c. 1960

Aerial view of Spence Bridge, 1970.
A Jack Klumpe photo

 

The defunct Jefferson Street Exit on I-75
The bottom of the I-75 hill was rebuilt. It had acquired a nickname: Death Hill

 

                       

Covington Aerials which are likely older than you think!

 

	Looking North. I-75 at the right	Looking West. I-75 at the top.	St. Agnes in the lower left

from the left, Dixie Highway runs north	Covington	Looking East
These five images from Facebook posts by Brad Wallace. Photos by his father, Calvin Wallace. All 1980's.

 

1979
From a Facebook post by Winston Beech

 

1985

 

	1996	1995

 

Looking south, from the Suspension Bridge, c. 1970	Newer Aerials

 

Covington Aerial	Brent Spence Construction	Covington Riverfront Aerial

               

Relatively newer aerial views

 

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.
The detail on the original is such that it would take a 140,000 megapixel camera to replicate it.