Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Famous engraving of city in new printing
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The panoramic steel engraving of Cincinnati in 1900 is as detailed as a dollar bill. No wonder. The artist who created it was renowned for his dollar bills, $10 bills, $100 bills. Charles F. Ulrich (1835-1907), who lived on Loth Street in Clifton Heights, was the greatest counterfeiter of his day.
The German-born engraver had been making money for nearly 50 years, and had spent a number of them in prison.
By the turn of the century he had settled down as a legitimate engraver when he was commissioned by the Kraemer Art Co. to create this 10- by 39-inch view of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Touted as the largest steel engraving in the world, the plate was sent in New York because there wasn't an engraving press in the Midwest large enough to print it.
Now “Cincinnati in 1900” has been reproduced on heavy, acid free paper by Ohio Bookstore, 726 Main St., downtown.
It is available for $18.95 plus shipping from Ohio Book Store, 621-5142, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 369-8960, and the Mount Adams Bookstore, 241-9009.
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