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Norwood - List of Books
and Documents

 

A list of books, directories, annuals, yearbooks, newspapers and similar documents with information relating to Norwood, Ohio.


BOOKS

TITLE AUTHOR DATE
The Suburbs of Cincinnati:
Sketches Historical and Descriptive		 Sidney D. Maxwell 1870
(reprinted 1974)
Suburban Homes For Business Men
On the Line of The Marietta		 Richard Nelson
published by
R. Nelson & L. Bolles		 1874
(reprinted 1996)
Illustrated Cincinnati D. J. Kenny
published by
Robert Clarke & Co.		 1875
History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Henry A. Ford
and
Mrs. Kate B. Ford
published by
L. A. Williams & Co., Cleveland, Ohio		 1881
Record of Norwood Schools, 1890-1903
The age, attendance, exam grades, etc. for every student in the Norwood School System for the school years 1890-1903		 created and compiled by C. M. Flowers, principal of Norwood Schools 1890-1903
History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County S. B. Nelson
published by
S. B. Nelson & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio		 1894
Norwood, Her Homes and Her People
Pleasant Places in the Gem of the Highlands.
A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE LIVELIEST MEMBER OF CINCINNATI'S SUBURBAN FAMILY		 Ren Mulford, Jr.
&
Werter G. Betty		 1894
Cincinnati & Vicinity Brown, The Cincinnati League 1898
The General Ordinances of the Incorporated Village of Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio. In force, October 1, 1899. W. H. Anderson, publisher
by order of Council		 1899
Reports of Cases
Argued and Determined
in Ohio Courts of Record
a.k.a. Ohio Decisions
Superior and Common Pleas
Volume 1		 published by
The Laning Printing Company		 1900
CINCINNATI, The Queen City
(includes some mentions of Norwood and photos or drawings of some major Norwood businesses and their officers)		 published by Geo. W. Engelhardt Company, Cincinnati 1901
Historical Souvenir
(includes a Norwood history article written by J. U. Lloyd)		 published by Fraternal Order of Eagles, 1907 Highland Aerie No. 449 1907
Primitive Norwood Colonel John H. Morton 191?
Philander P. Lane;
Colonel of the Volunteers in the Civil War, 11thOhio Infantry		 William Force Scott
privately printed
by order of Mrs. Lane		 1920
Cincinnati History by George Puchta George Puchta
typewritten compilation
with limited distribution		 1933
Fifty Golden Years
a Half Century of Spiritual Progress
1886-1936
St. Elizabeth Church		 Rev. Francis Gressle 1937
They Built A City
150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati		 Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project
of the Works Progress Administration
in Ohio
published by The Cincinnati Post		 1938
A History of Norwood, Ohio an unpublished document compiled by
Mr. & Mrs. Allen C. Roudebush
but was the basis for a 1976 book by Norwood High School students		 1940
150 Years of Presbyterianism
in the Ohio Valley
1890-1940		 The General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America		 1940
CINCINNATI
A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors		 compiled by workers of
the Writers' Program of
the Works Projects Administration
in the State of Ohio published by The City of Cincinnati, Ohio		 1943
History of Norwood Ruth Thompson
(part of W.P.A. writers' project?)		 19??
The City of Norwood, Ohio
1809-1957		 Arthur Ruppert
Norwood Chamber of Commerce		 1957
City of Norwood, History & Directory
1809-1965		  
 		 1965
Norwood, Ohio
comprehensive master plan
for future growth		 Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff
Norwood, Ohio: City Planning Commission		 1969
Norwood, Ohio,
1787-1915		 Margaret Joann Childress
M.A. thesis, University of Cincinnati		 1970
The birth of a local union:
the history of UAW Local 674,
Norwood, Ohio, 1933-1940		 John Gregory Kruchko 1971/1972
Norwood Scrapbook
(a 100-copy self-published book)		 Joe Rice 1973?
Norwood, Ohio
A Bicentennial Remembrance		 Mr. & Mrs. Allen C. Roudebush
and Students of Norwood High School
edited by Margaret Guentert
published by Allis-Chalmers
with Norwood Bicentennial Committee		 1976
St. Elizabeth Parish Centennial
1884-1984		 edited by
Donald E. Prues		 1984
CINCINNATI
1788-1943
WPA GUIDE
reprint of the 1943 book
CINCINNATI — A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors
published by Cincinnati Historical Society		 1987
Historic Inventory of (Norwood) Hamilton County, Ohio Miami Purchase Association for Historic Preservation /
Hamilton County Dept. of Community Development		 1991
John Uri Lloyd:
The Great American Eclectic		 Michael A. Flannery 1998
The Biggest City In America
A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio		 Richard B. Schwartz 1999
FAITH AND ACTION: HISTORY OF CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI
(URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
includes Norwood Heights project
published by Ohio State University Press		 Roger Fortin 2002
Norwood
part of the "Images of America" series
published by Arcadia Publishing		 Christine Mersch 2006

    The books are in private collections, public libraries, historical societies, and bookstores. If you are looking for one of them, or another book or document relating to the history of Norwood, Ohio, some sources to try are: The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County—at the main library downtown Cincinnati or one of the neighborhood branches, especially the Norwood Branch, and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library at the Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Avenue.
    Some of the books may be purchased from various sources. The 1987 reprint of the WPA Guide to Cincinnati is available at the Museum Center's store, located inside the old Union Terminal building. The Biggest City In America, by Schwartz and Norwood, by Mersch, may be available at local bookstores. Reprints of Suburban Homes For Business Men, Illustrated Cincinnati and Norwood–Her Homes and Her People may be available at The Ohio Book Store, downtown Cincinnati, a good source for old and out-of-print books. A limited number of copies of Norwood, by Mersch and Norwood, Ohio–A Bicentennial Remembrance are available from The Norwood Historical Society.
    These sources and links are listed here for the convenience of the reader and are not to be considered an endorsement.

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DIRECTORIES

    The following directories are available at the Norwood Branch of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Library—ask at the desk. They are useful for finding names and addresses of residents and businesses. Occupations and spouses' names are often listed, also. By using several directories, changes in addresses over time can be determined, too.
    Other sources of directories (especially the Cincinnati City and the Suburban Directories) are the Cincinnati Historical Society, the main Cincinnati & Hamilton County Library and the Norwood Historical Society (list of directories follows below).

TITLE YEARS COMMENTS
Williams Cincinnati Volume XII 1862 Includes some Sharpsburg area residents
Norwood Village Directory 1896 First directory of the 8-year old village has residences and businesses listed. The listing is alphabetical by last name, only — no ordered address listing. Since there were no numbered street addresses at the time, the addresses are usually given by relative location from an intersection, e.g. "res s s Mentor, 2nd h w Main ave.", or "residence north east corner Williams and Ivanhoe" which, incidentally, were the respective addresses for Mayor David Davis and the W. C. Baker family.
Williams Norwood Directory 1902 Listing by last name.
Williams Norwood Directories 1909-10
1911-12
1913-14
 Listing
by last name
only.
1915-16
1917-18
1919-20		 Listings by
last name
and street address.
Williams Norwood Directories 1922-23
1924-25
1926-27
1928-29
1930-31
1932-33
1934-35		  
Williams Norwood Directories 1937-38
1939		  
Williams Norwood Directory 1942  
Williams Norwood Directory 1944 Divided into 6 sections: miscellaneous, e.g. list of government officials (white), by last name (white), street locations (pink), householders by street address (pink), Buyers' Guide of advertisements (goldenrod) and Classified Business (yellow).
Williams Norwood Directory 1954 Divided into 4 sections: by last name (white), by street address (pink), Classified Buyer's Guide (yellow) and Classified Business (buff).
Williams Suburban Directories 1957
thru
1964		 In 1957, the Norwood City Directory information was absorbed into the Williams Suburban Directory
Williams Suburban Directories 1966
thru
1976		  
Williams Suburban Directories 1978
thru
1988		  
Williams Suburban Directory 1990  
Williams Suburban Directories 1992
1993		  
Williams Suburban Directory 1995  

   If you have a copies of any of the missing directories, please consider donating them to the Norwood Branch Library.

LIST OF DIRECTORIES AT Norwood Historical Society

Cincinnati City Directories
1930-31, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1936-37, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953-54, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966(2), 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1985
Hamilton County/Suburban Directories (contains Norwood listings)
1939, 1940, 1942(2), 1944, 1957, 1958-59, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963(2), 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976(2), 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985
Norwood Directory
1954
Haines Cross Directories (I - TeleOKey, II - AddessAKey)
1946II, 1948I, 1949I 1949II, 1950, 1950I, 1951I, 1952II, 1956, 1958-59, 1960-61, 1961-62

    Some other Norwood related books at the Norwood Branch Library include City of Norwood, Ohio 1809-1957, Ruppert; Early Norwood Radio, Rice; General Motors; History of Norwood, Ohio, Roudebush; Norwood: Gem of the Highlands, Mulford; Norwood: Her Homes and Her People, Mulford & Betty; Norwood, Ohio, a Bicentennial Remembrance, Guentert, ed.; St. Elizabeth's Church: Fifty Golden Years and St. E's 100th, 1884-1994.
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YEARBOOKS

    The following yearbooks are in the Norwood Historical Society's collection. Donations to the Norwood Historical Society of any annuals not listed would be greatly appreciated.

NOTES: Prior to 1923, the Norwood High School yearbook may have been called The Beacon & Mirror. The 1944 Senior Book stated that the first Silhouette was published in 1923; the first annual, "an enlargement of the school paper," was published in 1908 as The Beacon, and later as The Mirror. Other sources of the Norwood High School Silhouette yearbooks are the Library (see below for a list) and the Norwood Alumni Association. Thanks to the Norwood Alumni Association's kind donation, we have four more annuals and a "Senior Book" in our collection. They are marked * in the following list. More Silhouettes (marked €) have been acquired recently by our curators. Those marked † were donated to the Society from the Norwood Branch Library's duplicates on August 16, 2010. On Sept. 1, 2010, more Silhouettes were donated from the Alumni's duplicates and are marked ‡ (later donations ‡‡). Donations from members or others are marked with #. 
   
    NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL — THE MIRROR
    Graduation Numbers or Annuals
    
    1916, June — no Vol. or No. given
    1917, February — Vol. III No. 6
    1918, June — Vol. IV No. 10
    1920, June — Vol. VI, No. 9
    1921, June — Vol. VII, No. 6
    1922, May — Vol. VIII, No. 5 - Junior Issue
    1922, May — Vol. VIII, No. 6 - Annual Edition
NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL — THE SILHOUETTE

 
    1920s
     1923 June, 1924 1925 1926* 1927 1928 1929
     (NOTE: OFFSITE LINK —  The 1927 yearbook has been scanned (~150dpi?) at 
     Kerry's Class Pictures and Yearbooks)
    1930s
     1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939*†
    1940s
     1940* 1941 1942 1943 1945* (1944-see below) 1946 1947† 1948‡‡? 1949
    1950s
     1950† 1951‡ 1952€ 1953€ 1954† 1955‡‡ 1957# 1958 1959‡
    1960s
     1960 1961 1962 1963‡‡? 1964‡‡ 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
    1970s
     1970 1971 1972 1973 1974† 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
    1980s
     1980‡ 1981‡ 1982‡ 1985‡ 1986‡ 1987‡ 1988‡ 
     1990s
     1990‡ 1991‡ 1992‡ 1993‡‡‡ 1994‡‡ 1995‡ 1996‡ 1997‡ 1998‡‡ 1999‡ 
    Special non-Silhouette annuals
     1944* Senior Book
In support of the war effort for reduced use of paper, etc., the Silhouette yearbook was not published for 1944.
However, the seniors published their own paper-cover annual so the senior class would be acknowledged.

We need these issues of THE SILHOUETTE
1956    1983 1984 1989    2000-present		 

    
     REGINA HIGH SCHOOL — ANCILE
    
    1920s
     1929
    1930s
     1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
    1940s
     1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
    1950s
     1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
    1960s
     1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
    1970s
     1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976
  
    The Norwood Branch Library has the following Silhouette yearbooks.
    1923-25 
    (a list on the Library's website records 1923, 1924 & 1927, instead)
    1929-71
    1974
    1977-82
    1985-88
    1991-92
   
    The Main Library has the following Silhouette yearbooks.
    1923 1924 1927 
    1931-37  1939
    1941-43
    1958-59
    1961
    1977-78
    1980

NEWSPAPERS

    The Norwood Branch Library has various editions of City Times, Norwood Advertisers, Norwood Enterprise, Norwood Enterprise Press and The Norwood Times. The Norwood Historical Society has various Norwood newspapers from several years, but mainly issues of the 1950s-1980s Norwood Enterprise. The Cincinnati Historical Society may have the Norwood Enterprise for 1895-1988?, with gaps, and the Norwood News for 1911-12. Because of the fragile nature of old newspaper, public access to the original newspapers may be restricted at all these organizations.
    The Magazine and Newspaper Department of the Main Library downtown has microfilm of Norwood Enterprise for 1930-69 and Norwood News for 1930-51. Other Cincinnati and out-of-town papers dating back to the 1800s are also on microfilm at the Main Library and The Cincinnati Historical Society. These papers have had many articles about Norwood over the years.
    Partial list of newspapers published in Norwood

  • The Norwood Enterprise (after becoming part of the Cincinnati Suburban Press, it was renamed Norwood Enterprise-Press mainly for promotion to advertisers, showing that the paper was part of a large group of suburban publications.) — 4545 Montgomery Road. A weekly newspaper (1894-1989); a Democratic newspaper; Prices: 1929-5’
  • The Norwood Gazette — southeast corner Harris Avenue and Montgomery Road. Weekly.
  • Norwood News — 2107-2111 East Sherman Avenue (Bennett Avenue). Weekly "Republican" newspaper ca. 1930s-?
  • The Norwood Republican — 5 Plaza Theater Building (1912); east side of Station Avenue, opposite Crown Avenue (1914, 1917)
  • Evanston Christian News — 4642 Montgomery Pike
  • Norwood Christian News — 4642 Montgomery Pike
  • The Norwood Advertiser — maybe started in 1922; In 1929, it said it had "the largest circulation of any newspaper in Norwood" and "the largest circulation of any local weekly newspaper in Southwestern Ohio;" 10,000 copies were distributed each week; the publisher was The Blade Publishing Company, Room 106, Center Bldg.; it stated that it was independent in politics. Weekly, published every Friday.
  • Norwood Citizen — 1st issue was October 2, 1931 . Weekly, every Friday.
  • The Norwood Times — 3921 Montgomery Road. Weekly
  • The Norwood Journal — 2115 Bennett Avenue (East Sherman Avenue), although 1st paper gave address as 4600 Main Ave. Weekly – distributed free in Norwood on Thursdays, otherwise 5’/copy; 1st issue was Thursday, March 6, 1952.
  • Hamilton County Sun — Plaza Theater Building. weekly.
  • Norwood Neighbor — 1st issue was November 1995
  • Norwood Pride — monthly, 1st issue was June 1998 (last was February 1999 or later); number of pages varied from 8 to 20; 50’
  • Norwood Star — monthly, since 2009; 75’
  • Norwood Sundial — weekly, ca. 1937 (maybe other years)
  • Suburban (Shopping)Guide - weekly, ca. 1934-1937 (and other years?) (maybe other years)
  • Enterprise Shopping Guide - 1934 (and other years?)
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