2018 Research Projects from UC/CPC African-American History Class
The 2018 UC/CPC class at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts composed 8 projects based on topics suggested by the digitization of businesses Continue Reading
Tag: Business
Ads for Black-owned or Black-friendly Businesses: Slideshow
Here is a selection of the ads from The Union, The Cincinnati Herald, The Ohio Enterprise, and NIP Magazine. These ads represent the range of Continue Reading
Black-owned or Black-friendly Businesses in Walnut Hills
Thanks to a grant from the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation, we researched ads in black newspapers and magazines from 1902 to 1980. The map below Continue Reading
Dr. Loretta C. Manggrum
Loretta Cessor, born in 1896 in Gallipolis, Ohio, had African American, Irish and Native American ancestry. Her mother was a teacher who played the piano Continue Reading
Analysis of Green Book Entries
The collated information from each year of Green Book entries reveals some confirmations of other research and some surprises. Here is a preliminary analysis of Continue Reading
Green Book Map
This map locates all the businesses recorded in the Green Books for Cincinnati. Several locations — especially in the West End — don’t exist today, Continue Reading
The Hotel Alms
In 1891, Frederick Alms built a large apartment building on McMillan, just across Elmwood Place (later renamed Alms Place, now Victory Parkway) from his palatial Continue Reading
Frederick Alms
Frederick Alms, a native Cincinnatian born in 1839, graduated from Woodward High School and began to work for an uncle in the dry goods business. Continue Reading
Projects
SCPA Research on Gaines High School In 2024-25, students in the college-level class at SCPA traced some graduates of Gaines High School to document their Continue Reading
Fox Hardware
William H. Fox, an Irishman born in 1851, came to America at age 18. By the mid ‘70’s he had established a business as a Continue Reading