One of the things that made the Breiners stand apart from other families in Over-the-Rhine was their generosity. Sadly, their one-day-old infant died there in the spring of 1946. Elder he ran his roofing company from there as well. After their marriage in 1941, Gladys and her husband Steve Deak (1918-1974) lived at 126 W. The shop continued for one more year, to 1957. John died in 1941 at home and thereafter his widow Anna and his daughter Gladys ran the family business until Anna’s death in 1956. Elder that sold small furniture, household items like record players, clothing and other goods. Frequently the family washing is hung in the workroom.Ĭhildren, too young to go to school, are usually kept there so that the mother, who assists with the sewing, may take care of them.įrom 1913 until his death in 1941, John Breiner (1880-1941) ran a dry goods store at 126 W. Many of the workrooms connected with living rooms are used for both cooking and sleeping purposes. Ventilation is poor in nearly all the shops inspected, especially in the larger shops, where gas irons are used for pressing. Many of them are in private dwellings or tenements. The Consumers’ League in 1918 wrote of Cincinnati’s tailoring and millinery shops, “The larger contract shops are regularly inspected by factory inspectors, but the smaller contract shops and the majority of tailor shops are under no supervision. Labor in this time was sex-segregated and beginning in the early 19th century, garment work-in the form of textile mills-offered women some of the first paid industrialized labor in the U.S., extending the feminine tradition of home-based cloth manufacturing into the factory, and throughout the century, more and more women worked in all the various stages of clothing production. Elder.Īs more and more women worked throughout the 1800s, a major employer of women in Cincinnati was the garment industry (by the mid-1800s, clothing-especially ready-made-employed more people in Cincinnati than any other industry). She and her daughter lived at 2609 Vine Street where she also did millinery work (most likely at home) in addition to the shop at 126 W. Elder for her millinery shop.ĭressmaker Emma Bauerle (1858-1937), who lived at the building, also worked there, doing outwork in her apartment.
From 1899 to 1911, Katherine Menges then used 126 W. Louisa was a German immigrant, born in Baden in 1838. She had previously worked out of what is now Harvest Pizza at the southwest corner of Elm and Elder. Until these years, the vast majority of infants were delivered at home.Īfter the Letzler store, from 1897 to 1898, Louise Hoefle (1838-1921) ran a millinery operation at 126 W. Midwives, until the 1920s and ‘30s, were the primary health practitioners who delivered babies in Over-the-Rhine. She immigrated in 1869 and worked as a midwife for Over-the-Rhine and later Clifton. Barbara Schuster, an immigrant from Bavaria, lived at 62 Elder with her husband George, also from Bavaria, and their children, John, Carrie, Frank, Mary and Billie, all born in Ohio. In the late 1800s, midwives Barbara Schuster and Leopoldina Federle both lived at 62 Elder. Elder, now Luken Warehouse, in the early 1900s. William was also connected to Findlay Market: he ran an oyster and fish store out of 107 W. Witz (1864-1939)-and in the fall of 1930, he and Josephine married. He initiated divorce proceedings against her in 1918 for “willful absence.” At that point, their Findlay Market store had long ended he lived in Norwood and she at 819 Vine Street (and later Northside).īy 1920, she moved to 1215 Clay Street in Over-the-Rhine. Harry and Josephine eventually parted ways. The building was renumbered to its current address of 126 W. After the Juegling store, Josephine and Harry Letzler continued the queensware tradition at 62 Elder. Thereafter, Henry as a widower continued his business at 62 Elder his daughter Bertha and his son Henry remained living with him and assisting him before they left to marry and start their own families. It got its name after Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), queen of England, commissioned Josiah to make her a tea collection in 1765.
Queensware is a particular type of cream-colored pottery invented by Josiah Wedgewood (1730-1795). Prior to working at 62 Elder, he had used the storefront at 52 Elder for his business. Juegling then operated his queensware store in the first floor. From 1863 to 1866, Gustav Woelfer (or Woelper)-who was a tinner by trade-ran a tin shop and queensware store at 126 W.
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