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1913 Dayton Flood Survivors Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: MS-296
Abstract

The1913 Flood Survivors Oral Histories is a collection of video oral history interviews with survivors of the 1913 Dayton Flood. The videos were made in the 1990s and the participants tell their stories of survival as children during the flood.

Dates: 1995-1996

1913 Flood Postcards (SC-221)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-221
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 56 postcards depicting the 1913 Dayton flood and its aftermath. Some of the postcards are real photo postcards. The information provided for each item is the caption on the postcard for 1-49, postcards 50-56 have no caption and the information is provided by processor. Six more postcards were added to the collection in July 2010, #57-62. They are identified by their captions, except the final one, which remains unidentified.

Dates: 1913

1937 Flood Scrapbook (MS-663)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-663
Abstract

The collection contains a scrapbook featuring newspaper clippings (articles, photographs, and advertisements) reporting the impact of the 1937 Ohio River flood on Cincinnati, Ohio, and surrounding areas in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. It also contains a special edition Cincinnati Times-Star newspaper about the flood.

Dates: 1937

Mildred Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-399
Abstract

The collection includes photographs, registration cards, newspaper clippings, West Carrollton Reading Club records, postcards, and scrapbooks. It was created by Mildred Baker who lived in the Dayton area in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Dates: 1895-1931

Ina Bicknell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-326
Abstract

Photographs relating to aviation in this collection depict topics such as pilots, airplanes, naval ships, and military personnel around the time of World War II. The collection also contains aerial photographs of city landscapes and of the 1937 flood in southwest Ohio and Kentucky. The majority of the photographs in the collection are not dated and most are unidentified.

Dates: 1933-1947

Boyer Mortuary in the 1913 Dayton Flood Booklet (SC-276)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-276
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one booklet entitled Boyer Mortuary in the 1913 Dayton Flood. The booklet was written by Chip Boyer and is dated 2002. It consists of seven pages mostly of photos of the mortuary and writing on what the flood damage possibly may have been.

Dates: 2002

Breidenbach Family Album (SC-309)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-309
Content Description

The collection consists of a single album, containing primarily photographs, as well as news clippings, documents, and mementoes, concerning Dayton pharmacist and physician Dr. Carl Henry Breidenbach (1867-1926) and his family. In addition to family photographs and a few medical scenes, other notable topics of the photographs include the Dayton flood of 1913, bicyclists, and the President Rutherford B. Hayes home in Fremont.

Dates: circa 1882-1930

Harrison Morton Bretz Photographs (SC-277)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-277
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 38 original photographic prints (of 30 different pictures) in downtown Dayton, Ohio. About half of the photos depict damage following the Great 1913 Flood of Dayton, and the rest show various landmarks, buildings, and scenes of Dayton between 1913 and 1920 (several alluding to World War I). Landmarks shown include Memorial Hall, the "New" Courthouse, Union Station, the Third Street post office, the Dayton Daily News building, the Old Main Library, and the Miami...
Dates: 1913-1920

Michael Caporale Collection, William Preston Mayfield Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-269
Scope and Contents The Michael Caporale Photograph Collection consists of 356 photographs collected by Michael Caporale. The collection is close in provenance to MS 271, the Peerless Mayfield Collection. Many of the images in both collections are similar subjects and clearly come from the same sources. Users may wish to consult both collections to obtain a more complete overview of Mayfield’s photographic legacy. Series 1 of this collection consists of photographs taken by Dayton photographer...
Dates: 1880-1979

Clark County 1959 Flood Clippings (SC-328)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-328
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, primarily from the Springfield Daily News, concerning flooding in Clark County, Ohio, in late January 1959.

Dates: 1959

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