John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, completed in 1866 Library of Congress, HAER OHIO, 31-CINT, 45--4

SIA 2012 Cincinnati Conference Registration Tours are filled on a first come basis using your registration form post mark date or your online registration date.

Please indicate order of preference (1-first choice, 2 second choice, 3-third choice)

TOUR PREFERENCES you guest Thursday Optional Tour (extra cost) T1. Dayton Tour ___ ___ T2. Carew Morning Tour ___ ___ T3. P&G Morning Tour ___ ___ T4. Carew Afternoon Tour ___ ___ T5. P&G Afternoon Tour ___ ___ Friday Tour (included with registration) F1. Upriver ___ ___ F2. Downtown ___ ___ F3. Kentucky ___ ___ F4. Paper Trail ___ ___ F5. Countryside ___ ___ Sunday Optional Tour (extra cost) S1. Carew Morning Tour ___ ___ S2. Cemetery Morning Tour ___ ___ S3. Bridge Tour ___ ___

PAYMENT SUMMARY

Registration Total…………………..$_________ Optional Extras Total………….……$_________ SIA Membership Total……………..$_________ Scholarship Travel Fund…………$_________ Preservation Grant Fund…………$_________ TOTAL PAID………………………$________ For more information about conference, please call the SIA Events coordinator, Ron Petrie at 216-372-8623 or email siaevents@siahq.org

Name: _________________________________________________ Affiliation (for name badge): _______________________________ Spouse/Guest: __________________________________________ Affiliation (for name badge): _______________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ City: _________________________________________________ State/Province: ___ ZIP/Postal Code: _________ Country: _______ Phone: Day: __________________ Evening: __________________ Email Address: __________________________________________ 1. Check box ❒ if you wish NOT to share information with other attendees 2. Is this your first SIA Conference? Yes: ❒, No: ❒ 3. Check box ❒ if you (or companion) may require special meals – we will contact you by phone or email to define your requirement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: All registration fees are on a per-person basis, including any late fees. Full Member and Student Registration fee includes Thursday Evening Reception, Friday Bus Tour, Friday Film Night, Saturday Paper Sessions and Saturday Luncheon, but DOES NOT include the optional Thursday Tours, optional Saturday Evening Banquet or optional Sunday Tours. All tours are space-available, first come, first served, with preference given to those persons paying for a full registration.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (add lines and total) All fees are on a per-person basis. MAKE TOUR SELECTIONS TOP RIGHT

SIA Member Registration………………….. __@ $275 = $_______ (if 2012 dues are paid, if not renew now or join now – must be member) Student Registration……. …………………..__@ $100 = $_______ (must include copy of current ID of full time student status) Age of students under 18 _______ Saturday Paper Sessions only……………….__@ $100 = $_______ (Includes Saturday Luncheon but not Saturday Banquet) Late Fee (after May 15)……………………….__@ $40 = $_______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE OPTIONAL EXTRAS Thursday Continuing Education Workshop__@ $150 each = $______ Thursday Dayton Tour…………………….__@ $75 each = $______ Thursday Carew Tour…(A.M. or P.M.)….__@ $20 each = $______ Thursday P&G Tour ….(A.M. or P.M.)..…__@ $20 each = $______ Saturday Evening Banquet ………………..__@ $60 each = $______ Sunday Morning Carew Tour……………..__@ $20 each = $______ Sunday Morning Cemetery Tour ……..…..__@ $30 each = $______ Sunday Bridge Tour…………………….…__@ $75 each = $______ AIA Extended Tour (initial non-returnable deposit)__@$150 each =$_____ (See AIA Spring Tour online brochure for tour dates, registration and total cost) Optional Extras Total……………………………………….$_______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIA 2012 MEMBERSHIP DUES (Renew or new member): Please check the membership level at which you would like to join or renew. (Mailing addresses outside of the U.S. and Canada require an additional $10.00 for mailing charge). _____@Individual……………………………..@ $50 = $________ _____@Household (Joint)……………………..@ $55 = $________ _____@Full-Time Student…………………….@ $20 = $________ _____@Non-U.S./Canada mailing fee………..@ $10 = $________

Method of Payment: Personal check or money order (in U.S. dollars drawn on U.S. bank). Make check payable to SIA 2012 OR register and pay by credit card online at www.siahq.org. Mail payment and form to:

SIA 2012 Conference Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA

2012 Annual Conference Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio & Northern Kentucky

May 31 – June 3 In 1790, 13 years before Ohio became a state, the settlement of Cincinnati was named in honor of the newly elected President George Washington, as symbolized by Cincinnatus, the Roman general who relinquished dictatorial power and returned to his plow at war’s end. At the confluence of three major tributaries of the Ohio River – the Great Miami, Little Miami and Licking Rivers – Cincinnati was the natural transportation and commercial hub for a hinterland covering large sections of three states. The city has been an important industrial center from its early beginnings. The region’s industrial heritage includes transportation infrastructure, component manufacturing, food and fat processing, and production of steel, precision tools, vehicles and paper. Cincinnati’s 1866 Roebling suspension bridge, like its younger sister in New York, remains in constant use by cars and pedestrians.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES PLEASE NOTE:

• The SIA Registration Desk in the conference hotel will provide timetables with exact times. • Your registration packet will include information on the many museums and points of interest

within walking distance of the conference hotel, to occupy your time in Downtown Cincinnati.

The following four activities are included at no additional charge with your basic registration: Opening Reception - Evening of Thursday, May 31 Companionship and entertaining speakers, in the magnificent Continental Ballroom of the Hilton. (Appetizers provided, sufficient for a meal. Cash bar.) Full-Day Bus Tour - Approximately 8:00-5:00, Friday, June 1 Choose one of five different itineraries, listed on the next page, featuring historic and modern industrial sites in Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky. (Lunch provided.) Second Annual SIA Film Festival - Evening of Friday, June 1 Extraordinary films in the ornate Chapel of the striking 1928 Masonic Center, or simply mingle with friendly conference-goers in the adjacent Founders’ Hall. (Cash bar.) Paper Sessions & Annual Business Meeting Luncheon - Approximately 9:00-5:00, Saturday, June 2 (May be purchased separately.) Presentations by researchers on industrial history and archeology, and a sit-down luncheon with important discussions and announcements, at the conference hotel. (Beverages and lunch provided.)

 

PROCESS TOURS – Approximately 8:00-5:00, Friday, June 1 F1-Upriver: Old River Pumping Station with 100-foot-tall triple expansion steam engines, historic Lunken Airport, and church bell casting in a 170-year-old foundry. F2-Downtown: Out-of-sight but vitally important aspects of an industrial city, such as the flood control pumping system, underground beer storage caverns and central rail switching yard. F3-Northern Kentucky: Sausage making, a rail yard and a steel tubing mill, with lunch in a German-style beer garden. F4-Paper Trail: The Great Miami Valley between Cincinnati and Dayton has a long history of producing paper, steel and aircraft systems, all of which remain vital today. F5-Countryside: Visit a 90-year-old operating foundry and a gunpowder factory, with lunch in historic Clifton, site of the famous gorge in the picturesque Little Miami Valley.

SATURDAY BANQUET – Evening of June 2

Enjoy exhibits detailing the region’s economic development since earliest human habitation, plus a full dinner and an entertaining speaker, at the Cincinnati History Museum -- one of three major museums housed in Cincinnati’s beautiful 1933 Union Terminal, along with an OMNIMAX theater and (still) the city’s main train station. (Transportation provided. Cash bar.)

CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOP - Morning to mid-afternoon, Thursday, May 31

This three-quarter-day introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- with hands-on learning of tips, tricks, tools, and applications -- offers valuable lessons regardless of your level of experience, or lack of it. Participants are encouraged to bring scanned maps, GPS data, AutoCAD or other digital files, as well as handheld GPS units you may be working with. We hope this workshop creates an ongoing discussion among a network of peers, who will continue to learn from one another. Conducted in the GIS lab of the University of Cincinnati. (Transportation and lunch provided.)

EXTENDED TOUR OF INDIANA, OHIO & MICHIGAN – May 28 to June 6 or 7 SIA members may take part in additional tours before and after the Conference, with the Spring Tour of the UK-based Association of Industrial Archeology. All hotel bookings, including at the Conference Hotel, are included in this package. Beginning with an overnight stay in Northern Kentucky on Monday 5/28, this tour will visit Southern Indiana (historic Madison, Cummins Engine, et.al.), arriving in Cincinnati in time for the SIA Opening Reception on Thursday 5/31. Departing Cincinnati at mid-day on Sunday 6/3, the tour will visit aviation museums in Dayton, then spend two (or an optional three) days in Detroit (auto plants, Henry Ford Museum, et.al.). Total cost will be between $1395 and $1815 per person (double occupancy) -- depending on attendance -- not including SIA Conference registration and optional extras (Saturday Banquet or a Sunday morning tour). See “AIA Spring Tour” on SIA website.

The following Thursday and Sunday tours are offered at an additional charge: Dayton’s Air Force Museum and Carillon Park - Approximately 9:00-5:00, Thursday, May 31 Visit your choice (or both) of the National Museum of the US Air Force or Carillon Park. The AF Museum has more than 360 flight vehicles on display -- many rare and one-of-a-kind -- and sensory exhibits. Similar to Detroit’s Greenfield Village, Carillon Park has 25 historic buildings on 65 acres celebrating Dayton’s heritage of invention, with artifacts such as the original 1905 Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical airplane. (Transportation and admission provided. Lunch on your own in museum restaurants.) Behind The Scenes at the Carew Complex - 3 times: Morning or afternoon, May 31, or morning, June 3 Walking tour of this beautiful 1930 Art Deco office and hotel complex, including industrial-scale kitchen, laundry and areas not open to the public, ending on the Observation Deck at the very top of the city. Procter & Gamble Museum & Archives - 2 times: Morning or afternoon, Thursday, May 31 A walking tour of this private museum (not open to the public) in Procter & Gamble headquarters offering an eye-opening presentation on the history of one of America’s oldest corporations. Tour of Cincinnati Bridges - Approximately 8:00-2:00, Sunday, June 3 Guided bus tour of historic bridges such as the L&N Bridge, Eden Park bridges, Massillon bowstring truss and Jediah Hill Covered Bridge. (Lunch provided.) Visit to Spring Grove Cemetery - Morning of Sunday, June 3 Guided walking tour of the city’s premier historic cemetery, final resting place of generals, politicians, athletes and captains of industry. (Transportation to the cemetery, but walking is required within it.)

CONFERENCE HOTEL

Our conference headquarters is the historic Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, in the city’s vibrant downtown, part of the Carew Tower complex, a 1930 Art Deco masterpiece, which includes an observation deck, retail mall, Rookwood tile mural and downtown Cincinnati’s only food court.

Rooms are available at SIA group rates, while supplies last, for reservations made by May 10. The rate for regular rooms is $139 per night, and for junior suites (perfect for families) is $169. SIA members also receive free high-speed internet access and other amenities. (There is a $10 surcharge for rooms occupied by more than two people, not counting children under 18, unless the children require additional bedding.) The quoted rate does not include state and local taxes, currently at 17%.

For the group rate, you may reserve on-line via the SIA website or by phone at 800-HILTONS (445-8667). If by phone, you must indicate your SIA affiliation at the time your reservation is made. Do not make your own reservation if you are attending as part of the AIA Spring Tour of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.

If you do not make your reservation at the Hilton, the Conference is within easy walking distance of other downtown hotels, as well as hotels just across the nearby Roebling Bridge in Covington, Kentucky (a very pleasant walk for those in walking trim, but allow at least 30 minutes).

PARKING OPTIONS

You will not need a car once you arrive in Cincinnati. Air, bus and train terminals connect to Downtown by taxi or public transit. If you bring a car, you have several parking options (these prices are subject to change and are not guaranteed to be in effect at the time of the Conference):

• Hilton guest valet parking is $24 overnight with complimentary in-out privileges (except departure day, when $10 is charged for each return). Enter from Race Street (one-way south) between Fifth (one-way east) and Fourth (one-way west). Clearance is 6’-6”.

• Self-parking adjacent to the hotel, in Tower Place Garage, is directly across Race Street from the Hilton valet entrance. The rate for 24 hours is $15, with no in-out privileges. Clearance is 6’-8”.

• Oversize vehicles may use the open-air lot at Fifth and Race Streets – the 24-hour rate is $15. • The 24-hour rate is $8 at the Central Parking Garage, 601 Elm Street, one block west and one

block north of the Hilton, at Elm (one-way north) and Sixth (one-way west). • Many other parking garages and lots are located within easy walking distance of the Hilton.

Cincinnati Union Terminal Concourse Library of Congress, HABS OHIO, 31-CINT, 29--23