Advance Millwork 800 Garrard

 

	The Air Dome	Kentucky Post, June 18, 1909

 

American Wire Nail

American Wire Screw and Nail did manufacturing at 16th and Washington (when the railroad ran down the center of Washington Street)

 

Frank Joseph Anthe, shown here, took over Anthe Machine Works when was 15-years-old, when his father, Frank D. Anthe, died.			Interior of Anthe Machine Works and its employees. Frank D. is the man in the three-piece suit.

	1987	Victor J. Schraivogel,a machinist for Anthe	Donald Anthe
	Thanks to Kathy Porter, daughter of Frank Joseph Anthe, for permission to use the photos.

F. D. Anthe
Manufacturers of Special Woodworking Cutters for Planing Mills and Furniture Manufacturers
407 Madison Avenue

Read more at the site of the Lost Art Press.

We've turned up three of their product catalogs, here, here, and here (all pdf's).
Catalog images courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Trade Literature Collection

 

Anthe video at the Behringer-Crawford

 

Argonaut Cotton Mill

 

The Army Store
508 Madison

 

John Arink, Fashionable Merchant Tailor, 1890, 6th between Main and Bakewell

 

The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the A&P
7th and Scott, April, 1935
From a Facebook post by Bonnie Hoffman

 

H. J. Averbeck Shaper Company

The Avey Drilling Machine Company was at 25 East Third. From a Facebook post by Charlie Pyles			Avey Drilling Machine Baseball Team, 1928 From a Facebook post by Hillary Delaney

 

Atlas Auto Top 22 E. Sixth in Covington

 

Bailer the Tailor, 1888

 

The Bank Lick Dairy

 

The Big Four Mills
s. e. corner of River Road

Larry Blank's Covington Cycles, 31 E. 5th Street, 1940

 

	H. F. Blase, Tailor, 1910	Kentucky Post, June 18, 1909

 

C. Bogenschutz Stove & Range, 1893,
Burnett, at the Licking River

John Bockweg's Shoot the Moon headquarters, 12th and Hermes, 1910	Boone Building On Scott between 4h and 5th

 

 

 

Four Views of the Boros Brothers Building, at 116-120 E. Second Street, April, 1986.
Barry Pepper was the photographer of these scenes.

 

 

J. E. Brock, on Madison at 19th
Thanks to Tom Taylor for capturing this off of Google Maps, because the building has since been razed. 
(Historical pics from Google Maps? Tempus fugit.)

 

N. O. Brooks, Fine Shoes 618 Madison

 

Brownfield's Mill Work, 33-37 W. Eighth			Brownfields, 1910
More on the Brownfield Company. The image on the right refers to Brownfield's as “where the Deutsche Scheutzen Bird” is made. If you'll think of the bird as a skeet shooting target, you'll be close.

 

The 1894 Covington City directory lists Clara, Katie and Mary Buddendick as seamstresses who live - and evidently do business - at 526 Main. Picture from a Facebook post by Will Lack

 

Busse & Heidecker Brick Co.

 

Cambridge Tile Mfg. Co.

 

The Casino Theatre, 1912, Parker & Stephens, proprietors 7 Pike Street

 

looking northwest, 2nd between Scott and Court	looking northeast, from 2nd and Scott	looking south, from Suspension bridge
Champion Ice Manufacturing & Cold Storage

 

 

11th & Scott, 1925	“Covington” Exchange, 11th & Scott, 1922	Inside the South Exchange, 1915	“South” Exchange, 4th and Court, 1922
Citizens Telephone Company

The South Exchange in the 1937 Flood. Generators were brought in the insure the phone system remained operative in the event of electrical outages.

 

J. M. Clarkson

 

The Clover Club's meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall

 

Believed to be the Colonial Bus Station, 2nd and Court

The Colonial Stage Line advertises rates and destinations, 1930.

 

Colonial Gas Station at 1061 Scott, 1930's.	The Colonial Theatre Madison Avenue, between Fourth and Fifth

 

Consumer Ice on the C & O Railroad, at 8th Street

Conwell's Drug Store

Edward A. Cooper's Furniture, Appliance, Radio and Television Store Cooper began his store at 501 Madison Avenue, Covington
	Take my advice, says Mr. Hooper. For your electrical appliances see Cooper He carries Victrolas and records, the latest in stock. It's the bright spot on Madison, 800 block- It's the cynosure for every avenue trooper. Kentucky Post, April 17, 1923

 

Charles and James Coston's Ice Cream Parlor s.e. corner of 6th & Madison

 

Covington Architectural Iron Works
9th and Washington

235 pounds!

 

The Covington Camera Shop, 1955 808 Madison Avenue   Photo Supplies, Darkroom Equipment, Model Kits,  Phone HE-4033

Kentucky Post, September 17, 1904

Covington Coal and Sand Co. Offices, 509-511 Madison Elevator, 13th St & Licking River

“The Covington Glass Works turn out fruit jars at the rate of 10,000 a day.” from the Covington Journal, July 17, 1869

 In the 1850's they built railroad
locomotives at the Covington Locomotive Works. Read about it here.

 

Covington Safe and Lock Works, 1896,
1046 Madison Avenue

 

	The Covington Lumber Company	Covington Rail-Mill, on Scott

 

Covington Sawmill and Manufacturing Co, N.E. corner, 2nd and Main	Covington Transfer Company

 

Covington Wine and Family Grocery, R. White
Ad from the July 17, 1852 issue of the Covington Journal, which,
ironically, also carried the story of the fire that destroyed it.

 

               

Crigler & Crigler Letterheads

 

Davezac's Building on Court Street, 1892

 

Deavey's, 20th & Greenup

 

		L. A. Degginger Sr.'s obituary, 1908 Degginger's goes out of business, April, 1911 Degginger's building sold, January 1911.
	Degginger's Dry Goods, 1910 6th and Madison

 

Modern Art Photography, Wilma Dettling Studio, at 804 Madison, call HEmlock 1-8325. In business here from roughly 1948-1962					Taken from the camera shop at the left, obviously by someone with serious photography skills.

 

Diamond Distillery
Offices in Cincinnati;
Distillery in Milldale (Latonia)

 

Dick's, mid-1940's From a Facebook post by Kim Walker Bourke	Dick's Standard, Fifth and Main from a Facebook post on the Old Northern Kentucky page

 

George “Cyclone” Maher
Read a little more about this famous Covington cyclist here.

 

Dixie Wholesale Grocery
8th & Washington
From a Facebook post by Brad Wainscott

 

Chas. Donnelly, Undertaker, 1890

 

Duhmes' Opticians and Jewelers, 528 Madison, front and back