#Cincinnati Museum Center

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Fourth Street East From Vine

Artist: John Caspar Wild (Swiss, 1806-1846)

Date: 1835

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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The Undercover Ensemble performing at the Cincinnati Museum Center, aka Union Terminal, Christmas time, 2013.

"Don't You Worry About A Thing"

The half dome rotunda of this Art Deco train station has quite an echo. Sometimes, a performance can eventually overcome it, as here.

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Things to Do in Ohio in the Month of February

As we start to leave winter behind and begin to see spring around the corner, here are some ideas for exploring Ohio in the month of February: February 1st:   Tour the Spangler Candy Factory to Learn About Dum-Dum Suckers February 2nd:   Enjoy a Girl’s Night Out at Hafle Winery February 3rd:   Explore Fort Ancient Earthworks February 4th:   Learn About the Piatt Family at the Piatt…

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Reblogging with the pictures I mentioned in case OP or anyone else would like the see them. The natural history museum has an artificial cave inside, while the regular history museum has a replica steamboat, and as both a geology and nautical history nerd, I loved both of them. The regular history museum also had a bunch of miniature models of Cincinnati in different years of its history.

Sorry again for yet another ask, but have you ever been to the Cincinnati, Ohio Museum Center? It’s a group of museums built inside of an old train station, and it’s a really cool place! I unfortunately didn’t get to take a picture of the lobby when I was there, but I have pictures of the natural history and regular history museums, if you’re interested.

I'm an east coaster, I'm afraid! But maybe someday I'll get out there.

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Who’s dog is this?

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Why cant I find any perfumes that actually smell like roses (or really any other flower) other than Bulgarian rose perfume?

Like roses have a distinct softly sweet flower smell that is light, airy and even abit earthy but every "rose" or "flower" scented perfume I find just smells like sickly sweet candy 😭

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"Where did Rico go now?"

Well, he enjoyed the trip.

As one can observe, there are many things to do in Cincy. Well, there is, if one can find hidden gems.

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Animal of the Day!

Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)

(Photo from Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

Extinction Date- 1939

Habitat- Midwestern United States

Size (Weight/Length)- 280 g; 25 cm

Diet- Seeds; Fruits; Nuts

Cool Facts- The Carolina parakeet was once one of the three parrot species native to the United States. These brilliantly colored birds were once found from New York to the Gulf of Mexico along riverbanks and cypress swamps. Flocks had up to 300 individuals, building nests in tree hollows and eating nuts or fruits. Carolina parakeets were in decline since the last glacial maximum, and combined with inbreeding and capturing for museum specimens, the parakeets were eradicated from the wild by 1904. A pair of Carolina parakeets, Incas and Lady June, in the Cincinnati Zoo passed away in 1918. Strangely enough, they were not classified as extinct until 1939 under the hope that some parakeets remained in the mangroves of Florida. Today, the sun parakeet, or sun conure, remains their closest relative. Sun conures are endangered due to hunting for their feathers, habitat loss, and capture for the pet trade. Conservationists are rushing to protect the sun parakeet’s remaining habitat and cracking down on cross-border trade.

Rating- 11/10 (Possibly poisonous from their diet including cockleburs.)

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Milestone Monday

On this day, November 4th in 1946, noted and often controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Perhaps best-remembered for his homoerotic imagery, Mapplethorpe's subject matter focused on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities, mostly in black and white.

His portraits of Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Louise Bourgeois, and bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, among many others, have become iconic. Perhaps the most notable controversy related to Mapplethorpe centers on his 1989 exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, which sparked heated debates about obscenity and the use of public funds to display such works. The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center was even brought to trial on charges of obscenity, but was exonerated by a jury. Robert Mapplethorpe died in 1989 at age 42 due to complications from HIV/AIDS.

The images shown here come from several publications held in Special Collections:

Robert Mapplethorpe by Peter Weiermair, published in Frankfurt am by Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1981.

Robert Mapplethorpe by Richard Marshall, with essays by Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy, published in New York by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1988.

Some Women by Robert Mapplethorpe, with an introduction by Joan Didion, published in Boston by Boston : Bulfinch Press, 1989 in 1989.

Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe edited and designed by Dimitri Levas, published by Arena Editions in 1999.

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Joan Blondell - The Ultimate Dame

Rose Joan Blondell (born August 30, 1906 in New York City) was an American actress who had a very long career in Hollywood. With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, she was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl and dubbed as "The Ultimate Dame."

Born to a vaudeville family of Polish and Irish roots, Blondell had seen much of the world by the time her family stopped touring as the Bouncing Blondells when she was a teenager. She won several beauty pageants before returning to New York to work as a model and perform on Broadway.

n 1930, Blondell starred with James Cagney which caught the eye of Hollywood star Al Jolson who brought it to Warner Bros. Placed under contract with Warner, she moved to Hollywood the following year and became one of the highest-paid individuals in the United States during the Great Depression. She was well still received in her later films, despite being relegated to character and supporting roles after 1945; even being nominated for  Golden Globe Awards for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Opening Night (1977). In her older years, she steadily worked in television and films, her last film being posthumously released.

At 73 years old, Blondell died of leukemia in Santa Monica with her children and her sister at her bedside.

Legacy:

Won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant

Placed fourth in the 1926 Miss America pageant and was a finalist at the 1926 International Pageant of Pulchritude, the precursor to the Miss Universe pageant

Crowned Queen of the A&M College Rodeo and Pageant in 1926

Named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Blue Veil (1951)

Nominated for the 1958 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Rope Dancers

Nominated for two Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Opening Night (1977)

Nominated for a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

Nominated for two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1969 and 1970) for Here Come the Brides

Wrote a novel titled Center Door Fancy, published in 1972, and heavily based on her own life and career

Featured in retrospective exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Blondell: The Bombshell from Ninety-first Street, in 2007 and at the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2016

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for December 2019

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6311 Hollywood Blvd for motion picture

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Frank Duveneck (American, 1848-1919)

Benn Pittman Balloon, 1891

Oil on canvas

30.625 x 35.625 in

Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Via Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Things to Do in Ohio in the Month of March

March 1st:  Explore Cincinnati’s Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove March 2nd:   Enjoy some fruit wine at  Bardwell Winery March 3rd: Spend time hiking the  Olentangy River Trail North March 4th:  Attend a special exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum March 5th: View period architecture at The Castle in Marietta March 6th: Order lunch at Mike and Rosy’s Deli March 7th: Book a nigh at the historic…

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Your Great-Grandparents Huffed Laughing Gas, And People Paid To See Them Trip

For the height of entertainment, early Cincinnatians enjoyed dropping by one of the local museums to watch their fellow citizens get stoned. The intoxicating agent was not cannabis or opium or shrooms, although all were readily available, but nitrous oxide or “laughing gas.”

The Western Museum started the trend. Founded in 1818 as one of the earliest scientific museums in the United States, the Western Museum is the ancestor of our Museum Center at Union Terminal. Regardless of its heritage, the institution struggled throughout its existence. Although stocked with fossils, minerals, Native American artifacts and animal specimens, the most popular attractions were grotesque wax figures and monstrosities like two-headed piglets and eight-legged lambs.

The museum directors, Robert Best and Joseph Dorfeuille, soon learned that lectures on scientific topics sold more tickets if they tacked a laughing gas demonstration onto the end of the program. An advertisement in the Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette [30 November 1822] is typical:

“Messrs. Best and Dorfeuille will lecture on various departments of Natural History, and Natural Science, the latter to be illustrated by a great variety of amusing and instructing experiments; among others, they will frequently repeat the administration of the Nitrous Oxide, which has always proved in so high a degree interesting.”

By 1834, the Western Museum had replaced laughing gas with a waxworks replica of Dante’s Inferno, and found a young man to spice up the infernal regions with flashpots and fireworks. His name was Samuel Colt, and he would later build a huge firearms company. While he lived in Cincinnati, however, Colt was a 20-year-old hustler fascinated by laughing gas. He billed himself as “the Celebrated Dr. Coult of New York, London and Calcutta,” and pumped nitrous oxide into anyone who paid for a ticket. His on-stage antics here made news far away. The Albany, New York, Argus [30 July 1833] reported:

“A certain Dr. Coult is administering the nitrous oxyde gas at Cincinnati, and by way of making the entertainment ‘peculiarly attractive,’ the gas is inhaled by a ‘curiously deformed black man.’”

The Daily Cincinnati Republican & Commercial Register [6 November 1834] assured readers that Dr. Coult’s exhibitions at Frederick Frank’s art gallery on Front Street contained “not the least shade of impropriety,” and insisted – no matter how entertaining the effects – this was all about science:

“Dr. Coult’s exhibition presents some of the most pleasing and laughable scenes one can well imagine. – Although the peculiar effects of Nitrous Oxide keeps the audience in a state of almost continual merriment, yet there is a great chance for the learned and curious to exhaust all their wits in sober contemplation of the effects of Nitrous Oxide upon the human system.”

Although nitrous oxide had been known and described by English scientists in the 1700s, the gas remained a psychotropic curiosity until its anesthetic properties were discovered in the 1840s. Its potential as an pain reliever was discovered during an on-stage performance by a medical school dropout named Gardner Quincy Colton. Although Colton later built a dental empire by promoting laughing gas for tooth extractions, he stuck with his profitable stage shows for years. In October 1847, Colton filled the auditorium of Cincinnati’s Melodeon Hall over several nights and the Cincinnati Commercial [2 October 1847] reported on the effects of his laughing gas on some selected subjects.

“The effects were different upon different individuals. “A. after the gas bag was removed from his lips, he stood for a moment, staggered about the stage, and finally fell to the floor. “B. commenced dancing a regular hoe-down with arms and legs in the most violent motion, leaping with all his might into the air, and exhibiting the most tremendous strength. This he continued until the excitement wore off. “C., a young merchant on Liberty street, of slight build, at some imaginary insult became enraged and commenced a furious battle upon those on the stage. Small as he was, it took five or six stout men to hold him until the effects of the gas passed away.”

Another subject was rendered “wonderfully polite and self-complacent” and wandered about the stage, rubbing his hands and bowing to the audience, while the next man up erupted in “silly laughter” while staring dumbly at the assembled onlookers. One young lawyer inhaled deeply, then stood in the most erect posture and recited a poem by William Cullen Bryant. According to the Commercial:

“The effects of the Gas lasted from two to five minutes, and seemed to pass off suddenly, dropping the taker of it down from the highest heaven to earth in an instant. We do not know why this gas should be called laughing gas. Most of the persons who took it on Tuesday evening were most solemnly serious. The whole performance passed off remarkably well, nothing occurring of the least unpleasant nature.”

Twenty years later, Doctor Colton was quite successful with his dental franchises, but still presented public demonstrations. On his 1866 tour through the Queen City, Colton not only recruited women as his subjects, but used them to promote his dental practice. An advertisement in the Cincinnati Gazette [17 April 1866] provides a rather shocking description of his show:

“On the above occasion, after the lecture, twelve ladies will inhale the gas, showing its amusing effects. Breathed in small doses, it exhilarates and develops the character. After which Dr. C. will administer it to several ladies in larger doses, producing profound anesthetic sleep during which he will extract their teeth without their knowledge. He will demonstrate that he has ‘a blessing’ to offer to the citizens of Cincinnati.”

Inevitably, once society latches onto some new exhilarant, reports emerge that insanity lurks within the depths of recreational chemistry. Call it the “Reefer Madness” effect. A Mrs. John Boyer of Cumminsville was sent to Cincinnati’s Longview Hospital for the insane in 1871 after weeks of increasingly erratic behavior were attributed to getting a tooth pulled by a Sixth-Street dentist using laughing gas. In 1867, the death of a Mrs. Bolum on Accommodation Street was found, on the result of autopsy, to have been caused by a strangulated hernia, but her family insisted it was dental nitrous oxide. And the Cincinnati Star [30 September 1876] carried this squib:

“There’s a young woman living in Glendale who, her relatives say, has become mildly insane by the use of laughing gas.”

Wasn’t that the whole point of huffing it anyway?

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Rotunda ceiling

Union Terminal's Rotunda is a 90-year-old masterpiece that turns every person who walks through its doors into an admirer.

Cincinnati Union Terminal is an intercity train station and museum center in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Commonly abbreviated as CUT, or by its Amtrak station code, CIN, the terminal is served by Amtrak's Cardinal line, passing through Cincinnati three times weekly. The building's largest tenant is the Cincinnati Museum Center, comprising the Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Cincinnati History Library and Archives, and an Omnimax theater.

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Mirror: Diana left her mother & sister as co-executors of her estate: The rumor that Princess Anne had anything to do with her estate or was in charge of Harrys money is FakeNews Harry got all of his inheritance @ 30 by u/Ruth_Lily

Mirror: Diana left her mother & sister as co-executors of her estate: The rumor that Princess Anne had anything to do with her estate or was in charge of Harry’s money is FakeNews, Harry got all of his inheritance @ 30 https://ift.tt/PlyGkMe archive: https://ift.tt/tbh1UFr “Frances Ruth Shand Kydd, and sister Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale, were named as co-executors and trustees for her estate. In her will, she requested that nearly all her possessions be divided between William and Harry - and her 17 godchildren received the rest and £50,000 was given to her butler Paul Burrell.” “According to reports, Diana wanted the bulk to be placed in a trust, which she requested William and Harry have access to when they turned 25. But the court allowed Diana's mother and sister to change a few of the will's details. It was decided that the age at which the princes received their share was changed from 25 to 30.” “The items included Diana's iconic 1981 wedding dress, which was to be gifted to the pair when Harry marked his 30th birthday. Meanwhile William received his mother's engagement ring - which he later used to propose to Princess Kate. The dress was made up of thousands of pearls, layers of silk and a 25ft train, and was returned to her sons in 2014 after a global tour.”“The treasured heirloom was transferred into the princes’ possession, alongside other cherished personal items. It had previously been looked after by her brother Earl Spencer and had been the centrepiece of an exhibition, which has raised money for the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The Cincinnati Museum Center in the United States also displayed the dress for six months.”“Mr Emanuel said in 2014: "That gown has earned its keep. It has been around the globe many, many times. I think more people abroad have seen it than British people. What’s extraordinary is, after so many years, people are still talking about it."Frances Ruth Shand Kydd = Diana’s motherLady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale = Diana’s sister There’s been a lot of rumors on this sub that Princess Anne was in charge of his trust. Nope. Or that he hadn’t received his money yet. Nope. So, now it’s confirmed he’s had his money since he was 30. post link: https://ift.tt/jyULVSq author: Ruth_Lily submitted: January 01, 2024 at 06:10PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit