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Title
The Davidson fountain. : Fountain Square: Fifth Street, between Vine and Walnut
Creator
MacBrair & Sons, printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of an eye-level close-up view of the Tyler Davidson Fountain at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, designed with allegorical figures; description of fountain printed in bottom margin.
Probable date based on printer history and publication of a description of the fountain in Stevens, The City of Cincinnati. Cincinnati: Geo. S. Blanchard & Co., 1869. "A Gift of Tyler Davidson & Henry Probasco to the City of Cincinnati..."--text, bottom margin. "... This magnificent structure, costing over $100,000, is fully described in a work published by : George E. Stevens & Co. : Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books and Stationery, : No. 39 West Fourth Street. : (Next to St. Paul's.)..."--text, bottom margin. "Macbrair & Sons, Lith."--text, bottom margin centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 55.88 x 41.91 cm (22 x 16 1/2 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_VIEW_000664
408433
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1386
Language
English
Subject
Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Tyler Davidson Fountain (Cincinnati, Ohio)--Pictorial works
Fountain Square (Cincinnati, Ohio)--Pictorial works
Advertising--Books
Architecture--Details--Pictorial works
Fountains--Pictorial works
Monuments--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
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Large Size
Middle West
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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