LH. Local History
Found in 916 Collections and/or Records:
Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project Records
The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project was established in 1977 as a joint effort by Antioch College and Wright State University. Its purpose was to interview and preserve stories of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust who settled in the Dayton, Ohio, area. The records consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, lists of potential interviewees, clippings, and publicity. The Project produced the Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust.
Swank/Martin Family Papers (SC-311)
This collection consists of about 20 legal documents such as deeds, mortgages, and other property-related records pertaining primarily to the Swank, Martin, and related families in Darke and Montgomery Counties.
Joyce Sweeney Papers
Sweeney is a writer of young adult fiction and a graduate of Wright State University. Her papers include typed manuscripts of several of her published works, journals, scrapbooks, college class papers, and correspondence.
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.
