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Tag: Laundry

The “Chinese Question” and Laundries in Cincinnati from the 1870s

This post about Chinese Laundrymen in Cincinnati a hundred and fifty years ago and the abuse they endured has suddenly become very topical. Hate crimes Continue Reading

Home Laundry Rooms: The disruption of washerwomen as independent businesspeople

Most African American women in Walnut Hills took in laundry during the Reconstruction era, roughly 1865-1880. The work was punishing, but the washerwoman was her Continue Reading

The Walnut Hills Steam Laundry

We have seen that many Black women, and a few whites, worked as washerwomen in Walnut Hills from the 1870s through the early decades of Continue Reading

Washerwomen and the organization of their work

Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading

Lincoln Avenue in 1870: What did women do all day?

We have been looking at the Census data from 1870 and 1880 to understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877. Continue Reading

Scene near Walnut Hills: Abraham Lincoln Monument 1967

Our previous post looked at the Abraham Lincoln monument in Avondale, both today and when it was constructed in 1902. The most famous incident at Continue Reading

Jennie Jackson DeHart and the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Jennie Jackson sang in the original Fish Jubilee Singers beginning in 1871. In 1885 she married the Nashville preacher Andrew J. DeHart, and the couple Continue Reading

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