Not a great image, but it shows what was on the Coppins site before the Coppins Building. Note tracks down the center of Madison Avenue | Coppins second location, next to Motch's on Madison |
The Coppins Building Department Store and Office Building |
The Coppin Building, 1912 Northern Kentucky's Greatest Department Store and Office Building |
Coppins demo's some new thing called a telephone from the Kentucky Post, April 1, 1924 |
Get a deal on a photo at Coppins, c. WWI |
Is it true that John Coppin got his stake in the department store by winning money on a horse named Knowledge in 1907? That's what we've read, but not something we've verified. |
Entrants in Coppins' 1931 Baby Contest |
The Coppins Float, in Cincinnati's Ohio Valley Exposition. More Exposition Cards at Don Prout's Cincinnati Views |
Typical ad January 6, 1909, Kentucky Post |
Coppins ad publishes a history of Coppins |
In the 1937 Flood
from a Facebook post by Cindy Alexander
John R. Coppin
A history of Coppins from 1958.
We've read that in 1907, John Coppin bet his last few dollars on a horse named Knowledge, which won, and gave Coppin that money to start his store. Except Coppins began in 1873. So there's that. |
Supreme Council The International Liberty Union of the World Covington, Ky, USA, 1913 (They just had offices here. That's the Coppins Building.) |