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Seward Funeral Home Records (MFM-101)
Collection
Identifier: MFM-101
Scope and Contents
Consists of a volume of indexed records from a Cincinnati funeral home.
Dates:
1887-1899
Found in:
Special Collections
Shaker Collection Papers (MFM-72)
Collection
Identifier: MFM-72
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of three items: the Benjamin Dunlavy Hymnal, handwritten in 1933 with an index; a history of the Shakers written by Richard McNemar in 1846; and The Vocalist, another Shaker hymnal, written by Sussana M. Brady in 1850.
Dates:
1833-1850
Found in:
Special Collections
Sharrit-Gross Family Scrapbook (MFM-10)
Collection
Identifier: MFM-10
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook contains family photographs, obituaries, notes, and genealogical materials for a family from the Germantown and Dayton, Ohio area.
Dates:
1886-1979
Found in:
Special Collections
Shelby County (Ohio) Local Government Records
Collection
Identifier: LGR-SHE
Dates:
tbd
Found in:
Local Government Records
Shivell Family, Jane Reece Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-437
Abstract
This collection highlights the work and family of Dayton poet, Paul Shivell. An accomplished poet published in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, Shivell was recognized for his pastoral poems which were published in several books and collections. Included in the collection are several original portraits by noted Dayton photographer Jane Reece, who was a close family friend of the Shivells and who took portraits of them throughout several decades. Other documents note the Shivells’...
Dates:
1911-1944
Found in:
Special Collections
James R. Shock Airship Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-388
Abstract
The James R. Shock Airship Collection documents the progression of airships from the early experimental prototypes of the late 19th century to the surveillance blimps used by the United States government today. The collection includes numerous photographs of military and civilian airships, blimps, and barrage balloons, along with detailed descriptions of the photographs. Included is Mr. Shock’s research for the airship books and articles he wrote over the years, magazine articles,...
Dates:
1908-2010; Majority of material found within 1994-1999
Found in:
Special Collections
F. Glen Shoemaker Letter (SC-336)
Collection
Identifier: SC-336
Content Description
The collection consists of a single letter dated January 18, 1926, from F. Glen Shoemaker, an aeronautical engineer at McCook Field, to a friend, describing a long-distance flight he took in November 1925. Shoemaker was the passenger in an open-cockpit plane (“a regular D.H. [De Havilland aircraft] with a Liberty 12 engine”) piloted by Lt. C. H. Ridenour, Chief of the Power Plant division. They traveled from Dayton to Washington, D.C., and Langley Field; New York City; Sidney, N.Y. (near...
Dates:
1926 Jan. 18
Found in:
Special Collections
Siebenthaler Nursery Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-44
Abstract
The Siebenthaler Nursery played an important part in the development of the nursery business in the United States. As such, it would prove valuable to any student of the nursery and landscape business, students interested in business history, or many aspects of local history. The business, founded in 1870, is still in operation today under the same family. The major strengths of the collection are its financial, employment, and operating records.
Dates:
1877-1944
Found in:
Special Collections
Sigma Alpha Iota, Dayton Alumnae Chapter, Records (MS-681)
Collection
Identifier: MS-681
Abstract
Sigma Alpha Iota is an international professional music fraternity for women that was founded in 1903 at the University of Michigan. The Dayton Alumnae Chapter was officially chartered in 1959 with 19 members, and is still active today. This collection contains administrative documents, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs related to the Dayton Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota from 1959 to 2020.
Dates:
1959-2020
Found in:
Special Collections
Lt. Bennett C. Simmons Drawing (SC-306)
Collection
Identifier: SC-306
Content Description
Collection consists of one oversize pencil portrait drawing of Lt. Bennett C. Simmons, a B-17 Bombardier-Navigator, Army Air Corps, WWII. The drawing was created by renowned portrait artist William Van Dresser at Boca Raton Field (Florida) in 1944.
Dates:
1944
Found in:
Special Collections
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