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Historic Images of Frankfort. Text by Nicky Hughes and Russell Hatter. Photo Restoration by Gene Burch. Introduction by Richard Taylor.

200fd — Frankfort Hertiage Press 2004. First Edition. Signed by the Photo Restorer. Square quarto brown cloth hardcover 144 pp. Near-Fine with gift inscription; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This collection of photographs most of them previously unpublished depicts Kentucky’s capital as a bustling community during the exapansive era following the Civil War through the middle of the twentieth century. Presenting the faces and structures of a Frankfort that has both changed and remained the same during the last century or so it seeks to give the Kentucky River’s largest town and one of the nation’s smallest capitals a local habitation and a name portraying events and people often overlooked in conventional histories. This is not a book that focuses on the rich and influential the history-makers so much as it is a commemoration of the ordinary people who define a community giving it flavor and a distinct identity. This book is the Frankfort community’s gift to itself composed of photos selected from the two thousand or so that were collected from its citizens. The choices portray a rounded view of Frankfort at work and play in celebration and mourning its past arrested in images of frozen light that document the unrecrded tasks and episodes often of random moments in a city’s life. A project in which a wide segment of the community participated it is a vibrant representation of everyday life in which residents and visitors alike can transport themselves through time to the small but lively capital on a floodplain in the Kentucky River. hardcover books