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Fisk Jubilee Singers, October 6, 1871

Today marks the 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ first tour. On October 6, 1871, a musical group comprised of students from Fisk University, Continue Reading

Louis Rebisso and the Modeling Arts in Walnut Hills

In about 1874, not long after Walnut Hills sculptor Louis Rebisso had arrived in Cincinnati in 1870, he joined the faculty of the McMicken School Continue Reading

Douglass School, High Culture, and American Performing Art

In 1916, the (white) Cincinnati Commercial Tribune newspaper reviewed a “splendid” musical performance by the Douglass Choral Society. The reviewer observed that the group presented Continue Reading

Lincoln Avenue Sculptor: Louis Rebisso

Louis T. Rebisso lived on Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills for practically all this working life as a sculptor and as a teacher at the Continue Reading

Fountain Lewis Sr.

In the previous post we met the Black barber Fountain Lewis, Sr. who was active in Cincinnati for more than half a century from the Continue Reading

Fountain Lewis Sr., barbering and Music Hall.

The Friends of Music Hall posted a wonderful blog entry on Fountain Lewis, Sr., a Black barber active in Cincinnati from the early 1840s until Continue Reading

Lincoln Avenue in the 1870’s and 1880’s

From early in Walnut Hills history, Lincoln Avenue was at the heart of a vibrant, diverse community. Using the 1870 and 1880 census along with Continue Reading

Construction During Reconstruction: Eden Park Band Stand

Cincinnati came to see itself during the period of Reconstruction as a leading cultural center in what was then called the West. This artistic renaissance Continue Reading

Glimpses of Jazz in Walnut Hills: Hotel Alms

The “new” Alms Hotel in 1925, with its 400-car enclosed parking garage, and its orientation toward the planned Victory Parkway, embraced the full integration of Continue Reading

Frederick Douglass School Library 1911

Since the nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Public Library provided service in the district’s school buildings. Douglass was no different; it housed a small library for Continue Reading

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