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The 1980 Annual Report of the Cincinnati Historical Society The 1980 Annual Report of The Cincinnati Historical Society By almost any standard of measurement, 1980 was a year of impressive growth for The Cincinnati Historical Society. On the threshold of its ses- quicentennial CHS exhibited a renewed vitality—a new capacity to meet its obligations and to fulfill its potential. A few statistics suggest the success CHS can claim for the past year. First, membership grew substantially. In 1979, membership expanded from 1,641 to 1,732. In 1980 an additional 300 members joined, bringing the Society's rolls to over 2,000 for the first time in its history.1 Because the Society is heavily dependent on income from memberships to finance its diverse library, publishing, and educational programs, the resulting increase in income provided by this expanding membership contributed to the health of the institution. In fiscal 1978, individual and business memberships con- tributed $53,000 to the operation of the Society; by fiscal 1980, this sum had grown by nearly 50% to $76,000. Realizing how much more the Society should be doing to care for the collections and to serve the community, the Board has set a goal of $95,000 in membership income for fiscal 1981. Second, library usage by researchers who came in person to use the col- lections expanded by one-third during the past year, from approximately 5,000 persons in fiscal 1979 to 6,600 for the year ending June 30, 1980. This level of use pushed almost to the limits the capacity of the library staff to provide attention and working space for researchers. That fewer than ten percent of the library users were members of the Historical Society testified at once to the unheralded service provided free of charge to the community- at-large and to opportunities for membership growth that the institution must learn to pursue more vigorously. Moreover, during the past several months, the Society has strengthened the quality of its programs in important respects. This growth has been fa- cilitated through the award of several major grants by the National Endow- ment for the Humanities, a federal agency created less than a generation ago. The Society's first major grant from the NEH enabled CHS to initiate the Cincinnati Neighborhood Studies Project in October 1979. The program is funded through NEH's Library Humanities Program which seeks to make available the resources of humanities collections to adults who are no longer involved in formal educational pursuits. The Endowment believes—as surely the members of the Historical Society must—that people's lives can be en- riched by learning more about history and other humanities. Hence, it es- tablished a program to make the humanities collections of libraries more accessible to people. CHS is seeking to achieve this through the Cincinnati Neighborhood Studies Project. The CNSP permits the professional staff of 269 the Society to reach out to new communities. There, residents learn to use CHS's collections and other resources to document the history of their own neighborhoods and its institutions. In the first year of the program, a wide variety of citizens in a handful of neighborhoods prepared tours, brochures, exhibits, and narrative histories that many of their fellow residents learned from and enjoyed. More detailed information about the first year of the Neighborhood Studies Project is provided later in this report. It was the strength of CHS's collections, combined with the fact that our library is open free of charge to everyone, which made this grant possible. Late in 1980 the grant was renewed for an additional two years. For a total of three years then, CHS will have a special opportunity to acquaint people throughout the metropolitan area with its programs and services. During that time, many people will learn more about their communities while they also learn how historians collect, sift, and weigh information in their effort to understand our past. Perhaps, along the way, some of the people touched by this program will accept a share of the burden for helping the Society collect, care for, and make available the materials that document the history of Greater Cincinnati. In that broadening of appreciation for and support of this institution may be found the real value of the Cincinnati Neighborhood Studies Project and, in a sense, of the NEH's Library Humanities Program. It is a democratic vision and an investment in the future of our institution that may or may not prove valid. It will be several years before anyone can judge. A second illustration of the support this institution is receiving from the NEH occurred in the spring of 1980 when the Society sponsored a series of On Easter Sunday, 1980 the Neighborhood Studies Project presented its first finished project, a House Tour of Mt. Auburn. His- torians Dottie Lewis and Alden Monroe assisted the Mt. Auburn Community Council in selecting a wide variety of sites and editing their research on the individ- ual houses. Over 300 people bought tickets for the tour. lectures on the theme: "Cincinnati Neighborhood Schools: Past, Present, and Future." The lectures were funded by the Ohio Program in the Humani- ties, a state-based organization that obtains most of its own income from the NEH. The papers prepared for these lectures also constituted the Summer 1980 issue of the Bulletin. The significance of the lectures, however, rests in part in the belief that history is not merely the interesting assemblage of generally forgotten information but, rather, can serve as a tool by which we deal with the present and equip ourselves to confront the future. In the case of the neighborhood schools programs, the lecturers and commentators made clear that our sense of neighborhood schools in the past tends to be erroneous. When people wish the future to be like a mis-remembered past, frustrations develop that correcting the record may help dissipate. As the year drew to a close, a third NEH-sponsored activity became part of CHS's future programming. For the past two years, the NEH has helped fund a Metro History Fair experiment in Chicago that has attempted to extend the experience of science fairs to history. Because the program has been successful there — attracting 6,500 students in 1980 who prepared ex- hibits, performances, and papers on the history of their "roots" — the NEH provided funds for extending the experiment to two other cities. After the Chicago administrators considered sixty cities and visited six, they selected Cincinnati and Baltimore for the program. The Society is now planning and working towards the sponsorship of a Cincinnati Metro History Fair in the spring of 1982. Finally, in December 1980 the Society announced the award of a $200,000 "challenge grant" from the NEH. This grant is contingent on the Society raising $600,000 in local money through special gifts and new mem- berships. For the most part, the money that is raised will be placed in the Endowment Fund to permit the Society to instigate an ongoing conservation and preservation program that has been deferred for far too many years. The collections, which have been the backbone of the institution throughout its 150 years, will be the focus of the Sesquicentennial Challenge Grant Fund Drive. Indeed, the collections have also been the basis for the other NEH grants, for the educational programs offered by the institution, and for the publications it has issued. The challenge grant represents creative federalism at its best. Conservation of materials collected by research li- braries is a national problem. But, because of the enormous costs attendant to microfilming, deacidification, encapsulation, and other measures, con- servation must be a local responsibility. Through the NEH, the federal gov- ernment has offered new help to The Cincinnati Historical Society in its own effort to preserve the documents of our region. Since the library is central to the institution, this year's annual report begins with a review of what has been done with and what has been added to our collections during fiscal 1980.2 THE SCHOOLS University, will be heard on "Public Ele- Series examines mentary Schools in Cincinnati, 1870- their origins 1914." Next week will examine "The Build- and problems ing Up of Zion: Parochial Schooling in Cincinnati, 1830-75," with Michael Perko, Pd.D. candidate at Stanford University, IT IS EASY to fall into the habit of re- as the principal speaker, at 8 p.m., Tues- garding the Cincinnati Historical Soci- day, and "Black Education in the 19th- ety as an organization preoccupied with century City," with the past. But just as professional histo- Dave The March 1980 lecture series on Cincinnati neighborhood schools, sponsored by the Society and funded by the Ohio Program in the Humanities, offered members and others interested in the school system, new insights into the neighborhood school concept and its history in Cincinnati. The Library REFERENCE SERVICE. Growing interest in the history of houses and neigh- borhoods and the continued popularity of family history contributed to in- creased use of the Society's library. Library registration forms, adopted in January 1979, provided a profile of users and their research topics: 31% sought genealogical information; 25% were students working on class as- signments or graduate degrees dealing with nineteenth and twentieth cen- tury politics and social institutions, community history, local artists, or historic building sites; 38% were individuals investigating an historical period, searching for supporting documentation for National Register nomi- nations, or studying the history of cultural organizations or companies.3 Diverse representatives of the business community used the library. The Powell Valve Company, for example, drew heavily upon the collections to produce "The Cincinnati Connection," a film tracing the more than 100 year history of the firm.
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