Low Cost Housing History – Jacob Schmidlapp
…individual bath is the greatest contribution to the improvement of the moral standard” — this was by no means a required amenity in rental housing in the early years of… Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
…individual bath is the greatest contribution to the improvement of the moral standard” — this was by no means a required amenity in rental housing in the early years of… Continue Reading
…suppose, is what comes of a classical education abridged by five weeks at home with neither church nor soda water. Emma Freerick’s Class History a bit more elegantly recounted “The… Continue Reading
…Cincinnati residents and institutions repeat the information. See, for example, https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/history or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Children%27s_Hospital_Medical_Center or, in print, Beatrice Katz Ph.D., Editor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Arcadia Publishing, 2008). Most of… Continue Reading
…free Blacks in the South. Her grandfather had been the enslaved body servant of President Andrew Jackson. Her mother, born enslaved, was freed in a deathbed manumission so Jennie was… Continue Reading
…people brought by their owners to Ohio, a free state, became free. As long as their entry into Ohio occurred with the consent of the owner, they could not be… Continue Reading
…when Black family members or friends purchased their freedom for them. Still others were descended from free people in the North. But there were always more African American Freemen in… Continue Reading
…by Brynn Thomas. The students developed questions for Kathryne, and you can listen to some of the answers from the recorded interview below. Kathryne grew up in a multi-generational household…. Continue Reading
…commentaries of the Talmud, and emerging German linguistic and historical criticism of scripture. It is not completely surprising that Hebrew Union, the center of Reform Judaism in America, embraced a… Continue Reading
…road. “Those who desire to take station with intention to hear the music will be arranged in compact order in the center or between the side passage-ways.” An engraving from… Continue Reading
…thoroughly American high culture that happened to be performed within our Black community – the only setting in the city capable of mastery of and appreciation for the work. Samuel… Continue Reading