Description: Dated ca. 1940, this is a drawing of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_06
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_05
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_03
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_02
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated February 9, 1945, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_01
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Miss Stowe, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, Professor Stowe, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in front of their winter cottage in Mandarin, Florida. At her winter residence, Stowe and her husband Calvin hosted Bible studies and were very active in the community in Mandarin, such as helping to found the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour and instigating the construction of a school for African Americans. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS3008
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Abolitionists; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Women authors
Places: Mandarin (Florida)
 

Description: Dated to the mid-1930s, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. At the time this photograph was taken, the home was being used as an inn. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4334_home_01
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Abolitionists; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Women authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to the mid-1930s, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. At the time this photograph was taken, the home was being used as an inn. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4334_home_02
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Abolitionists; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Women authors
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Edgemont Inn, Cincinnati, Ohio." Located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, at the corner of Foraker Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Edgemont Inn, formerly the Old Home Seminary, is now known as the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. The two story, gray painted brick home with wooden front porch was home to Harriet Beecher Stowe prior to her marriage, and to her father, Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers, and antislavery and women's rights advocates. The Beecher family includes Harriet's sister Catherine, an early female educator and writer who helped found numerous high schools and colleges for women; brother Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a leader of the women's suffrage movement and considered by some to be the most eloquent minister of his time; General James Beecher, a Civil War general who commanded the first African American troops in the Union Army recruited from the South; and sister Isabella Beecher Hooker, a women's rights advocate. The Beechers lived in Cincinnati for nearly 20 years, from 1832 to the early 1850s, before returning East. Shortly after leaving Cincinnati and basing her writing on her experiences in Cincinnati, in 1851-1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe authored the best-selling book of its time, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a fictionalized popular account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel, on the Underground Railroad, to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and is now a site of the Ohio History Connection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_024_001
Subjects: Architecture; Hotels; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863; Underground Railroad
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Edgemont Inn is a 2-story gray painted brick building on the corner of Gilbert and Foraker Ave. This former Beecher Homestead was the home of Rev. Dr Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). His family included Harriet Beecher Stowe and it is reasonable to assume that she received some of her anti-slavery sentiments in this house where prominent abolitionists came to visit. Among them was Levi Coffin, "President" of The Underground Railroad, whose residence was around the corner on 3131 Wehrman Ave. This structure was completed in 1833 to house the president of Lane Seminary, founded in 1830. Dr. Beecher was the first president of the seminary. Harriet Beecher Stowe's first two children, twins Eliza and Harriet, were born in the house in 1836. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_041
Subjects: Architecture; Hotels; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863; Underground Railroad
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Lyman Beecher, born in 1775, in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1797 and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1799. Beecher served as the president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati from 1832 to 1850. Beecher was the father of two prominent anti-slavery advocates, Harriet Beech Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Henry Ward Beecher, a firebrand preacher who sent guns to "Bleeding Kansas" and equipped Union regiments during the American Civil War. Lyman Beecher died in 1863. The portrait is taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04100
Subjects: Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: This illustration depicts Eliza, a character from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," crossing the Ohio River on ice, pursued by slave catchers and dogs. Published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an anti-slavery novel that depicts the harsh realities of slavery and which helped fuel the abolitionist movement in the United States. This picture appears in "Pathways of Progress: A Short History of Ohio," published by David Bowman in 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04193
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Abolitionists; Slavery; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio
Places: Ohio River