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: Hospitals and Medicine
Louis A Cornish, African American MD
Louis A Cornish, African American MD Louis A. Cornish (1872-1940) earned his MD from the African American Howard Medical School in 1898. The son of Continue Reading
Elmira Young Howard: “Doctress” with an MD from a Women’s Medical College
Elmira Young Howard earned her MD at the New York Medical College for Women in 1870. She migrated to Cincinnati that year and opened a Continue Reading
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
The Last Global Pandemic in Walnut Hills: Another Wave in February 1919
As we have seen, the height of the “Spanish Influenza” Pandemic reached its peak in Cincinnati in late 1918. The Health Department ordered schools in Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic 1918-1919: “Negroes Plead for a Change of Environment”
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, like the Covid 19 Pandemic, attacked different segments of the population with different severity. Then as now the Black population Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: Hughes High School, 1918-1919
By 1918, Walnut Hills High School had adopted a “classical” curriculum aimed at preparation for college. Students from our neighborhood could also attend the much Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: Walnut Hills High School, 1918-1919
The Walnut Hills High School yearbook, the Remembrancer for 1918-1919, presents a spectacular perspective on the year of the “Spanish” Flu. 1918 was also the Continue Reading