African-American Medical Practice at the Turn of the 20th Century
In a series of posts, Geoff Sutton has documented both people and institutions illustrating how doctors and pharmacists worked together to meet the needs of Continue Reading
Category: Businesses
Businesses
Model Drug Store Walnut Hills Branch: what professional success looked like
Model Drug Store Walnut Hills Branch: what professional success looked like Model Drug Stores, the largest chain of Black-owned pharmacies in Cincinnati during the 1910s Continue Reading
Model Drug Stores
Model Drug Stores In 1916, the Black-owned Model Drug Company began as a partnership between pharmacists Robert D. Russell and George R. Hicks, Jr., Russell’s Continue Reading
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924 The first Black-owned Drug Store in Walnut Hills – probably the first in Cincinnati – Continue Reading
Andrew J. DeHart: Insurance, Financial, and Philanthropic Leadership, 1886-1909
We have seen that Andrew J. DeHart had joined the Grand Unified Order of Odd Fellows as a young teacher in Cincinnati in the mid-1870s. Continue Reading
The “Chinese Question” and Laundries in Cincinnati from the 1870s
This post about Chinese Laundrymen in Cincinnati a hundred and fifty years ago and the abuse they endured has suddenly become very topical. Hate crimes Continue Reading
The Walnut Hills Steam Laundry
We have seen that many Black women, and a few whites, worked as washerwomen in Walnut Hills from the 1870s through the early decades of Continue Reading
Washerwomen and the organization of their work
Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading
Black Business on Lincoln Avenue: The First Ice Cream Parlor, 1878
The Black entrepreneurs William H. Fox and Rolla Pryor opened the first “Ice Cream Saloon” on Lincoln Avenue in 1878. We have seen in a Continue Reading
Irene Kirke, Black O’Bryonville Woman in Business from the 1910s
Irene Kirke, an African American woman, was born in 1887 in what was then the small town of Milford, outside of Cincinnati. She attended public Continue Reading