Add to ORKGDated 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 Undergro...