Farny worked with Baldwin and Company to create this “Walks about Cincinnati“, a publication that was likely created for visitors to Cincinnati as part of the 1888 Exposition.
Farny, having experience several Expositions, has thoughts on this 1888 event, published in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: “The Centennial Exposition,” said Mr. Farny, as the gondola glided out of the Exposition Building into the blackness beyond, “is scarcely to be compared with any other thing of the kind, either in this country or in Europe. It is a wonderful exhibition, marvelous in many respects. As a whole it is complete, in detail it is perfect. Every branch of industrial life is represented as it has never been represented before. At the exhibitions abroad one never had the opportunity to study the ingenious mechanism of enginery that is to be seen in this Exposition. Why? Simply because the Americans are the most ingenious and wonderful inventors the world has ever known. The machinery you see at this Exposition here you will see in some big European exhibition about five years hence, when it will be admired and marveled at. It takes about five years to reach Europe from this country in that respect.“
The only image Farny signed was the front page, but one of the pages notes that Farny was responsible for all the designs; I suspect some of the other illustrations are by other folks, such as the map of the city.
