Release Date: 2008-08-05
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A health movement led by Cincinnati’s German-Americans, first launched in 1848, became the stage for a fitness festival that was a show of Cincinnati’s own Olympics. UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library presents the photos and history of the 1909 Turner Festival that drew more than 50,000 fans to a special-built stadium for the event.
(PressZoom.com) - A health movement led by Cincinnati’s German-Americans, first launched in 1848, became the stage for a fitness festival that was a show of Cincinnati’s own Olympics. UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library presents the photos and history of the 1909 Turner Festival that drew more than 50,000 fans to a special-built stadium for the event.
This special online exhibit features images from the collection of Kevin Grace, university archivist and head of the Archives and Rare Books Library. The exhibit adds to the Archives and Rare Books Library’s urban sports collection and its German-Americana collection. Browse through this history at the following link:
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/exhibits/turnfest/index.html
By: Dawn Fuller
Phone: (513) 556-1823