A frontal, pictorialist treatment of Mt. Lookout Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“The Cincinnati Observatory, known locally as Mt. Lookout Observatory, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States) on top of Mount Lookout. It consists of two observatory buildings housing an 11-inch (28 cm) and 16 inch (41 cm) aperture refracting telescope. It is the oldest professional observatory in the United States. It was a key facility for astronomical research and education at the University of Cincinnati, which currently owns the observatory. It currently operates as a 19th-century observatory.” —Wikipedia accessed 2025

Charles August Weddigen: 1895–1977

Amateur photographer C.A. Weddigen, a resident of the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood, was a founding member of the Cincinnati Camera Club in 1921, and active with the club throughout that decade. A notice in the American Art Directory for 1930 reveals he made his living at the American Laundry Machine Company, which manufactured commercial laundry, dry cleaning and textile processing machinery.