CINCINNATI FALL FESTIVAL
1906
CINCINNATI, OH
See also Part I, Ohio Valley and Central States Centennial Exposition--1888 and Ohio Valley Exposition--1910.
Apparently Ohio Mechanics Institute succeeded by Cincinnati Fall Festival Association as sponsor of annual industrial fairs. Latter organized 1900 by local businessmen; staged first exposition that year in famed Music Hall; annually thereafter through 1906. This 1906 Festival held Sept. 5-22; included "huge spectacle...on canal banks"; attracted "hundreds of thousands of people."
Medal below obviously is souvenir of Festival but issuer, designer, extent of issue unknown.
Obv. Within open wreath is conjoined C and two reverse F's (seal of Association)--all within beaded circle; outside, above around Cincinnati Fall Festival; below • 1906 •; beaded border.
Rev. Edifice; above Souvenir; below edifice 1906; beaded border.
HK-652 Brass. 33mm.
HK-653 Nickel.