Foreword
The impression made by Matthew B. Brady with his remarkable photographic record of the Civil War was felt in much of rural America and its villages. Photography provided a method of depicting scenes of the old home town on postal cards which were mailed to those who had left. That so many of these postal cards were kept testifies to the depth of home ties and the desire to have something by which to remember them.
Birmingham, Ohio was the subject of photo postal cards. The photography was performed by professional photographers. George Eastman had not yet sold his cameras to the legion of amateur photographers.
But these postal cards are fast disappearing. And with their disappearance fades some of the record of Birmingham. To preserve this record, in so far as photographs can do so, this book was intended and prepared.
Otto B. Schoephle
Birmingham, Ohio
March 3, 1970
Birmingham of Yesteryear
| EDITORIAL BOARD | Althon Herman, Mrs. F. R. Howe, Miss Doris Prince, Otto B. Schoepfle and Starr Truscott |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION | William Moritz |
| PAPER | Roger L. Howe |
| SOURCES OF MATERIAL | Lucile Pfurr King, Norene Wolford, Emma Moser Hunter, Doris Prince, Starr Truscott, Waldo Blair, Merwin Blair, Minnie Flemming Parker, Tom Purcell, Beulah Spauding, Eugene and Leona Wendt, Katherine Early Opperman, Grover Berkmeyer, Clifton Mc Dowell, Archie McDowell |
| PUBLISHED BY | Wilmot Printing Company / Elyria, Ohio |
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