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Pictures@HarrisonCountyKy.US
Penny
Postcards, Family Photo Albums, Pinterest, and More
Amazingly, for such a rural county, there are nearly two hundred postcards
of Harrison County subjects, most of which were published during the early part
of the 20th century, and there are probably even more which have yet to
be discovered.
Pinteresting Pics
HarrisonCountyKy.US now posts pictures
and postcards to
Pinterest.com. Many of the images you can already find at this site can now
be found at Pinterest, and maybe even a few not seen before.
Penny Postcards
 Especially of interest at
this site are the pages devoted to
old penny postcards of Harrison County,
a majority of which are from the private collection of Charley Feix.
The subjects of the postcard images at this site include:
greetings cards, Berry, Ky., Cynthiana street scenes, banks, bridges, the Licking River,
cemeteries, churches, government buildings, hospitals, hotels & motels,
restaurants, schools, trains & stations, other Cynthiana sites, and tobacco & Kentucky.
Another site on the web,
Penny Postcards from Kentucky - Harrison County, is a USGenWeb site devoted
to posting images of penny postcards of all states, and they have a small
selection of postcards
devoted to Harrison County, Kentucky.
Family Photo Albums
 Pictures are always worth a thousand words, or so it has often been said,
and it always seems that no matter how much work you do at libraries and
courthouses in filling up those notebooks and three-ring binders with reams of
paper, one little picture on a piece of paper can seem to put all those other
papers to shame with their inability to bring out the human element of any
family history.
To see the images that visitors to
HarrisonCountyKy.US have submitted for use at this
site, or to see others that have been found through other resources, visit
A Family Photo
Album for the County or click on the following individual family links:
If you have any images that you would like to see posted to
these pages, from the 19th century up to World War II, I will gladly consider
adding them to this page. JPG images scanned at a minimum resolution of
200dpi are best, but if you don't own a scanner and have an image file already,
I will do my best to add it this page. Include as much information as
possible about the subjects of the photo that you would like to see on-line.
Please
e-mail me with any offers or questions.
The Bridges of
Harrison County - Images of two old bridges
which have since been lost to the ravages of time and man are available at the
Library of Congress. The links below take you directly to the
Built
in America pages of the
Library of Congress'
American
Memory project.
If you like should
like old bridges, and covered ones in particular like the old one in Cynthiana,
click here to find others still in existence in the region of Harrison
County.
Pictorial History of Harrison County
 In 1993
a hardbound photo book entitled Pictorial History of Harrison County was
published by the Cynthiana Publishing Company on the occasion of the
bicentennial of Harrison County. It is a 128-page book that is chock full
of old pictures of the people and places of Harrison County of the past 200
years. If
you can get your hands on one of these little gems, it is well worth the effort.
If you wish to see if
there is anybody you might know whose image might appear in
Pictorial History of Harrison County
click on the title of the book to view an every name index of the county's photo
album.
The County as It Appears Today on the Ground
& Online
Pages that are a part
of the
www.kyhometown.com website are devoted to
Cynthiana, with links to current weather and other local information,
including several "photo gallieries" devoted to Cynthiana sites and festivals. You can even watch
the sun set over Cynthiana via a live webcam link at the site.
The Cynthiana Democrat Online has, over the past, maintained several "Photo
Galleries," which evolve and change over time.
Harrison County also
has its share of historical markers, twelve as of this writing, some of which
have been photographed and posted to the web. One site,
www.signsofhistory.com, lists all twelve and includes photographs of several,
while another website entitled
Kentucky Historical Marker Database - Harrison County, Kentucky
lists all twelve and includes the texts of all twelve signs.
While there are no
photographs, you might want to look at a list of historic sites or districts in
the county listed with the
National Register of Historic Places visit their pages devoted to
Harrison County's sites and
districts.
Better-Than-Bird's-Eye Views
While not exactly
maps, some of following options might be able to help you to better find your
way down unmapped dirt roads and through some farmer's fields (Ask permission
first!). Even birds don't get better views than what these sites offer!
A fascinating website
entitled the
Digital
Ortho Image Download Center offers black & white aerial
photographic views of
the entire state of Kentucky. Specific images at the site cannot be linked
to from this one, but if you have a decent
map of Kentucky in front of you when you visit, you should be able to
sort through the linked map grids to get you where you want to go. These
images can provide you with the detail that not even topographic maps show, such
as property boundary lines and structures too small to include on such maps.
Even individual monuments in cemeteries show up in these photographs!
Sights from a
Satellite
The online search
powerhouse of
Google has just recently become a
resource for free satellite imagery. Just go to
Maps.Google.com,
enter the name of the community in which you are interested in the search box,
click on the "Search" button, and you will be offered a choice of map,
"satellite" imagery, or a "hybrid" view of satellite images overlaid with a
roadmap template. Click on 'satellite' or "hybrid" to view either of
the two satellite image options. Be aware, however, that not all areas
have been photographed with the same detail, and so the area in which you are
interested in may not be viewable with the same closeness as provided by the
aerial views at the
Digital
Ortho Image Download Center.
If the
Google images are not good enough
for you, or if you just don't want to spend a lot of time downloading images,
good color satellite views of Harrison County are also available on CD.
The Image
Trader (P.O. Box 30637, Flagstaff, AZ 86003) is an example of one
resource that offers satellite imagery for nearly two thousand counties and
three hundred cities across the United States for about twenty dollars each.
I have an Image
Trader CD of satellite imagery for Harrison County that I have been
thoroughly pleased with. Their offerings can be viewed at
www.landsat.com through their
store at
Ebay.com
"Good Luck" with your
research!
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