City - Cincinnati OH - The genius of water 1906 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Cincinnati OH - The genius of water 1906 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1906
Original title: Fountain Square and Tyler-Davidson Fountain
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 42 East Fifth St, Cincinnati, OH
Each thing I colorize I learn a new weird fact about that location, like this fountain was designed to be a large drinking fountain, that had cold water year round. They stored ice underneath it, where 2000ft of pipe ran, chilling the water. They drank it from a communal bronze cup, because they felt drinking it from the stream of water was gross.
Bronze cups were attached to each base, and they lasted till the 1980's, when the last two were removed for sanitary reasons.
The fountain was a thank you to the city for helping a hardware business to grow, and it was named after a partner that died. However they placed it in an area that was a thriving meat market, and they had to destroy businesses so people can use this location, which was unfair. But no one in the area complained other than the butchers, because the place was very urban and stank something fierce.
Anyway, I was able to find a large postcard fully colored already, so I chose some of the colors from that. Other's from another view of this place I made a while ago, from 1907. At first I was confused as to what year any of these were. This one as marked 1906, but in a years time, many signs changed, and a large one appeared on that distant building. A lot changes in a year.
I would like to know what was going on on the other side of the fountain. Between the two drinking statues on the left, there is a lady with a daughter, and a guy, all looking in the same direction. But it kills me, not to know what was so interesting over there.
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October 27th, 2021
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