Cincinnati Photos
This gallery has photos of people who lived primarily in the Cincinnati, Ohio area from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. It concentrates on the Gordon and Rauber families.
Verna with children Gertrude, Lydia, and Jacob. This picture was taken in Switzerland.
Jacob moved his family from Switzerland to Cincinnati in the late 1800s. He was a saddlemaker with a shop in the Price Hill district.
William at a young age.
This picture was probably taken about 1903. Gertrude is the one standing on the far right.
This was a picnic in the early 1900s where William Lewis Gordon and Gertrude Rauber first met, although neither of them are in this picture.
Probably taken about 1905 (they were married in 1907).
Lydia was an artist, working in oil paints.
William's office, probably in the 1910s.
Gertrude (Rauber) Gordon with Donald and Cedric in the family's Ford Model T Touring Car. The license plate shows that this photo was taken in 1916.
This was his office, probably in the 1920s or 1930s.
In the Oakley area of Cincinnati, this was the house of William and Gertrude Gordon for a number of years.
Cedric at a young age, going by the fashion.
This was A. C. Gordon's office in the 1930s when he worked as a clerk for the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
Cedric Gordon and one of his first new cars: a 1938 Chevrolet.
Cedric as editor of the Camp Maxey Times newspaper, Paris, TX._tmb.jpg)
Cedric Gordon and Joyce Danenhauer at their marriage in Paris, TX, while Cedric was at Camp Maxey in 1944.
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Joyce (Danenhauer) Gordon, Margaret Ebenhack, Virginia (Ebenhack) Koch, Mathilda (Ebenhack) Danenhauer, and William Koch. Cedric Gordon was in the trenches at the Battle of the Bulge about this time.
Cedric Gordon with a Jeep and submachine gun.
A pencil sketch made by another G.I. during the war.
Cedric somewhere in Belgium or Germany, 1944-1945
Cedric Gordon received a Bronze Star for bravery during the crossing of the Rhine River at Remagen.
The 99th Division was stationed near Nuremburg in the aftermath of the war. This is Cedric with a wartime buddy and another friend.
A booklet telling the story of the 99th Infantry Division in World War II.
Cedric's office at home in 1972.
Photo taken at their home in Fredericktown, Ohio.
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