• "Sublime and Beautiful Mountain Scenery": Western Images of A.E. Mathews.

A.E. (Alfred Edward) Mathews(1831-1874) was an English immigrant whose early career was that of a traveling bookseller and artist. During his service in the Civil War he drew scenes of the conflict which were published as lithographs. In 1865, Mathews moved west and began producing the lithographs for which he is best known: images of Colorado, Montana and Rocky Mountain scenery. These views are among the earliest and rarest for the Rocky Mountain West and their detail provides important historical documentation. This exhibit presents a selection of fifteen images from three of Mathews Western works. The images also appear in: A.E. Mathews: The Western Works. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati Digital Press, 2004.

• A Gathering of Nations: Images from McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America

Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1824-1830. He commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples. He accomplished this in the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in three volumes between 1836 and 1844. This exhibit presents a selection of twenty-four images from the History. Each image represents a different Native American Nation and is accompanied by a brief description. The images also appear in: McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America: The First Issue. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati Digital Press, 2002.

• Medicine Painter: George Catlin on the Upper Missouri River, 1832

George Catlin was the first artist to document the Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri. His Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians is an important source of ethnographic information. This exhibit traces Catlin's route on the Upper Missouri trip of 1832. It features a selection of images from a copy of Letters and Notes in the Archives & Rare Books Department. These images also appear in George Catlin: The Printed Works, the first publication of the University of Cincinnati Digital Press.

The following online exhibits were developed by the University of Cincinnati Digital Press in collaboration with institutions in the Cincinnati area. They represent part of the effort which resulted in the publication Art as Image: Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio. The print publication has an online supplement which appears as a separate online publication on this web site.

• Images of Progress:
  Cincinnati Industrial Exposition Posters
   
• Promotion Through Playing Cards:
  A Preview
   
• Cincinnati Prints at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library
   
• Images From Collections of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County