(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 18, 2008 ) -- Cincinnati, OH – The Greater Cincinnati Police Museum today announces the release of a series of 36 collectable postcards over the coming months that capture some of the most memorable events throughout the history of the city. The images are taken from the archival postcards and photographs held at the downtown museum, and a series of 36 total postcards will be produced, with nearly a dozen being reproductions of 100 year old postcards.
The series of 36 cards is divided into six sets of 6 cards each. A set of six costs $5, and the full set can be purchased for $25. Individual cards can be purchased for $1, and all proceeds benefit the Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society and the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum. The cards measure four inches by six inches, and are suitable for framing and matting. The cards are available now at the museum, and according to museum director Alan March, they will soon be available at the Ohio Book Store on Main Street and the Museum Center's Gift Shop in Union Terminal.

The cards will also be available for purchase online when the museum launches its new website, slated for launch in early August. The cards were produced for the museum by Stevenson, the Color Company, on Wilmer Road.

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About The Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society
Established in 1999, the Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society opened the Police Museum in 2006 to showcase and display the proud heritage of public service of more than 60 police agencies that serve throughout Greater Cincinnati. The museum, located at 959 W. 8th Street, is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. More information can be accessed at http://www.gcphs.com/ or by calling 513.300.3664. The group is currently seeking both monetary and historical donations for the museum. Memberships are also available.
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Postcard Descriptions:

SET 1
Reproductions of “trading cards,” of the Court House Riots, 1884: The Hamilton County Court House in flames, set by rioters; rioters meeting at Music Hall; police and National Guardsmen man barricades in front of the Court House; barricades on the side of the Court House; a squad of police taking cannons away from rioters; police and volunteers taking the wounded to the hospital.
SET 2
Roll of Honor, issued to Patrolman William Boers in 1900 for saving three boys by stopping a runaway mule; four African-American police officers in the early 1920s (two are identified: John “Pop” Toney, and Olin Wilson who later died in the line of duty); Cincinnati Police Patrol Wagon #5 circa 1890s; the Cincinnati Police Department’s “Police Colts” semi-pro baseball team; the Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputies in 1884 after three days of rioting in Cincinnati caused 50 deaths and the burning of the Hamilton County Courthouse; a late 19th Century poster showing scenes during the 1884 Hamilton County Riots.
SET 3
A reproduction of a century-old postcard showing Cincinnati Mount Police Troop; African-American Patrolman Webster Roberts, of the Lockland, Ohio, Police Department, circa 1900; a reproduction of another century-old postcard, showing the Cincinnati Work House, . Cincinnati Police Sergeant Edwin Goeper in his parade, unifom, 1899; a Cincinnati patrolman who won the prestigious Alms Medal circa 1910s; Cincinnati Police Patrol Wagon #4, circa 1890s.
SET 4
Cincinnati Police Lieutenant William Copelan, 1907. Copelan later served as the Cincinnati’s Police Chief for 23 years!; early Community Policing:Cincinnati Patrolman George Steidinger poses with a young boy circa 1890s; the Cincinnati Park Police posing in Eden Park, 1935; a Newport, Kentucky police officer in the 1920s; reproduction of a century-old postcard of Cincinnati Police inspection in front of City Hall, in 1907; Cincinnati Police Chief Paul Milliken rides in a 1910 Thomas automobile
SET 5
reproduction of a classic postcard of the Cincinnati Police Inspection in the Reds’ Ballpark, circa 1906; Cincinnati Patrolman Roscoe Lewis on the steps of Corryville Elementary School 1917; 1895 photo of Cincinnati Police Command staff:
Chief Phillip Deitsch, Superintendant George Hadley, Superintendent Thomas Duffey, and Superintendent of Detectives Lawrence Hazen; the St. Bernard, Ohio, Police Department 1901; Cincinnati Police Lieutenants and Sergeants at City Hall, 1915; Cincinnati Police Chief Paul Milliken and “Handsome,” in an early police car, 1910.
SET 6
Cincinnati Police Detective Frank A. B. Hall, who retired in 1926 and became Cincinnati’s first African-American Councilman; Cincinnati Patrolman Dawson Moneyhon displays his Colt revolver, circa 1918; Ladies of the Rotary Convention, “Joy Riding,” in a Cincinnati patrol wagon, 1916; reproduced antique postcard depicting the Cincinnati Mounted Patrol on maneuvers, circa 1908; Cincinnati Patrolman Frank Muller, circa 1900; Hamilton County, Ohio, Traffic Officer Chris Robisch, 1935, who later became Chief of Mariemont Police.

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