LH. Local History
Found in 913 Collections and/or Records:
Tecumseh High School Class of 1955 Collection (MS-650)
The Tecumseh High School Class of 1955 Collection contains primarily clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, and mementos from class members’ time in high school, as well as later alumni and reunion activities. The basketball team, which was quite good at the time, is strongly represented in the collection. The scrapbook of German exchange student Gudrun Klotz from the class’s senior year is also particularly noteworthy.
Ten Dayton Boys Club Records (SC-79)
Photocopies concerning the Ten Dayton Boys Club, an organization of boyhood friends who met yearly and included Wilbur Wright and his brothers, Reuchlin and Lorin.
The Crucible of Flight (MS-312) in CORE Scholar
"The Live Wire: Collection of Prohibition Songs" from Local History Ephemera Collection (MS-383) in CORE Scholar
The Wright Brothers and Their Work Booklet (SC-137)
Report written by George Bia, the Wrights' representative in Belgium, which includes illustrations and technical drawings. Also includes photograph of Wilbur at controls of a flyer.
Dr. Arthur E. Thomas, President Emeritus, Central State University, Collection (MS-667)
The collection contains personal papers, legal documents and court proceedings, photographs, audio and video recordings, news clippings, awards and certificates, correspondence, and other materials relating to Dr. Thomas’s life and career in education and civil rights activism. The collection includes a significant amount of analog audiovisual material, including recordings of most episodes of Thomas’s interview program “Like It Is.”
Thomas Morrison Papers (SC-81)
Handwritten and transcribed pages describing Morrison's experiences as an early settler in the Miami Valley.
Glenn Thompson Papers (MS-4)
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.
Charles “Chuck” Tiffany Collection
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. Oliver E. Tillson, M.D., Collection
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.
