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
Category: Culture
Eleanora Alms and her legacy
Eleanora Alms survived her husband Frederick by more than 20 years. She stepped in to the role of a leading philanthropist, lavishly memorializing her late Continue Reading
Mary Emery
Mary Emery, one of the founders of what became Children’s Hospital, moved with her husband into a mansion they built in Walnut Hills in 1881. Continue Reading
Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
African American Cincinnatians fared better than their sisters and brothers in the South during the years of Jim Crow beginning in the 1880’s, but even Continue Reading