UC Libraries Receive Grant to Digitize Historic Cincinnati Subway and Street Project Photographs

The University of Cincinnati Libraries were awarded a $60,669 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize and make freely available on the Web the photographic collection of Cincinnati's subway and street changes archive.

The approximate 8,000 negative and prints, which date from 1920 to 1956, include both interior and exterior shots of private residences and city scenes. They were taken as part of a failed subway development project in Cincinnati and also as documentation during various street projects. The interior images offer an in-depth look at how a typical Ohio family lived at this time while the exterior shots show a changing, and bustling, city.

More about this project is available on the Libraries website.

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