RR. Railroad and Canal History

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Collection consists of black and white, 8x10 photographs of the dedication ceremony of the Barney & Smith Co. First Class Railroad Car. Dayton, Carillon Historical Park; 1996.

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The collection consists of interurban train schedules for cities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The schedules include information about the train lines, arrival and departure times, stations, distances, and sometimes fares, as well as advertisements and often a short business directory for the particular city. The advertisements were sold by L. M. Berry, later founder of L. M. Berry and Company, an extremely successful telephone directory publishing company.

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Canal Society of Ohio Collection, Wright State University, Gift of H.R. Valley, 7/1/92, 1 roll of microfilm, Investigation-Public Works, O. (This is likely a microfilm copy of MS-219.)

Abstract An eclectic group of materials pertaining to the history and lore of the Miami-Erie Canal in western Ohio, as well as other canals in neighboring states, the collection consists of pamphlets, maps, photographs, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and a run of the Canal Society of Ohio newsletter Towpaths. The activities of the Canal Society of Ohio, founded in 1961 to preserve and promote Ohio’s canal history, are also documented through publications, tour guides and newspaper...

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Contains newspaper clippings, circulars, documents, and business letters from the scrapbook of an early president of the CH and D Railroad. Another group of materials consists of copies of articles from the American Railroad Journal (1847-1855) which pertain to railroads in the Miami Valley. See also MS-6.

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Contains newspaper clippings, circulars, documents, and business correspondence from the scrapbook of Stephen Satterly L’Hommedieu (1806-1875), an early president of the C.H. and D. Railroad. Another group of materials consists of copies of articles from the American Railroad Journal (1847-1855) pertaining to railroads in the Miami Valley area.

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Collection is an accumulation of records from four Dayton streetcar companies: the City Railway Company, the Dayton Street Railway, the Oakwood Railway Company, and the Peoples Railway Company. Records include operating reports, schedules, financial records, a study of Dayton's interurban transit system, printed materials, maps, and miscellaneous items.

Abstract This collection consists of over 2,000 photographs and negatives collected, and in some cases taken by Richard Fullerton, who spent his career in the photography laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The portrait photography in the collection represents predominant photographic processes, portraiture styles, and formats from the second half of the 19th century. The collection contains tintypes, cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, albumen prints, platinum prints, matte collodion...

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Book produced by the Germantown Historical Society containing photocopies of records of two railroads that operated in the Germantown area during time period 1880-1884.

Abstract The local history collection of Leonard Hill includes a variety of 19th century events and topics related to Piqua area history. Included are an early 19th century farmer's diary by John B. Miller, a Miami and Erie Canal log book by foreman James R. Spencer, and an 1862 Union soldier's diary recounting two months following the battle at Richmond, Kentucky in which he had been captured, paroled and returned to Union custody, north of Columbus, Ohio. In addition, various clippings and magazine...