LH. Local History

Handwritten and transcribed pages describing Morrison's experiences as an early settler in the Miami Valley.

Consists of correspondence, reports, clippings, speeches, memorandums, photographs and printed materials reflecting Thompson's wide ranging interest in education, politics, environmental and social problems, historic preservation and journalism. Also includes an oral history with Sam Zehrung about his life and great gardens of Dayton, Ohio.

This collection consists of correspondence, awards and citations, photographs, and engineering reports related to Mr. Tiffany’s work at Boeing and for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Dr. Tillson was born in Darke County. He graduated in 1862 from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute. He practiced in West Alexandria, Ohio. The ledger lists visits and accounts of patients.

The collection contains a single ledger used by Dr. Tillson to record information transferred from other ledgers concerning his patients, visits, and accounts therein. The ledger was also used by his wife after his death to record grocery lists of different people.

Student paper written by Megan Nealis in December 1998 concerning Jerusha Peacock.

Consists primarily of correspondence of three generations of the Totten Family in Springfield, Ohio, and Yellow Springs, Ohio, from the early 19th through the 20th century.

The collection consists of nine bound volumes of patent litigation records for the lawsuits that the Wright Company brought against the Herring-Curtiss Company and Glenn H. Curtiss, Louis Paulhan, and Claude Grahame-White. These are the personal copies of the Wrights’ lawyer, Harry A. Toulmin, and the books contain many handwritten notes.

This collection contains the papers of Trinity Baptist Church, located on Shiloh Springs Road in Dayton, Ohio. The church opened in 1886 and closed in 2011. The records include pamphlets, bulletins, financial records, member files, Women's Baptist Missionary Society materials, correspondence, and programs.

Consists of a church history as well as baptism and marriage records. There is also a listing of the membership and pastors for this Xenia church.

The Edmund Trissell Collection chronicles the life of Dayton photographer Edmund William Trissell through negatives, photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from Mr. Trissell's daily life and photographic assignments.