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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
Found in:
Special Collections
James Keen Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-450
Abstract
James Keen was a newspaper photographer for a number of newspapers throughout the country, including the Dayton Journal-Herald. This collection consists of approximately 9,300 black and white negatives and black and white photographs. These photographs were taken from 1937 to 1946 in and around the Miami Valley, including Dayton, Wright and Patterson Fields and other nearby Ohio areas. As a newspaper photographer, many of these photographs were taken to accompany news in the Dayton Journal...
Dates:
1933 - 1946; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945
Found in:
Special Collections
Marianna Nixon Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-512
Abstract
Marianna McKnight Nixon was a lifelong Daytonian and descendant of several prominent families of the Dayton area, including the McKnights, Dovers, and Van Cleves. The collection is primarily comprised of photographs of Marianna’s life and family, as well as correspondence, genealogical information, and printed materials such as newspaper clippings, brochures, and periodicals.
Dates:
1799 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1990
Found in:
Special Collections
Eugene W. Sayer Collection (MS-648)
Collection
Identifier: MS-648
Content Description
The collection consists primarily of black and white negatives (as well as a few black and white prints and a few color slides) of Reynolds and Reynolds Company buildings and employees; animals and people at Richard H. Grant's Normandy Farm near Centerville; and other activities and scenes around Dayton, including (but not limited to) Esther Price Candy Company, the building of a new St. Anthony Catholic Church, Liberal Market, harness racing, downtown Dayton road construction, and aircraft...
Dates:
1938 - 1952
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Dayton (Ohio) -- History 3
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- Color slides 1
- Dayton (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works 1
- Dayton (Ohio) -- History -- Pictorial works 1
- Farms -- Ohio 1
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- Letters (correspondence) 1
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- Boy Scouts of America 1
- Bretz, Harrison Morton, 1888-1972 1
- Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company 1
- Dayton journal herald 1
- Dover family 1
- General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division 1
- General Motors Corporation. Inland Manufacturing Division 1
- Grant, Richard H., 1878-1957 1
- Keen, James N. 1
- Markle, Herbert Van, 1948- 1
- McKnight family 1
- National Cash Register Company 1
- Nixon, Marianna McKnight, 1919-2010 1
- Reynolds and Reynolds Company 1
- Ruscillo, Laurie 1
- Sayer, Eugene W., 1907-1986 1
- Thompson, Judith M. (Sayer) 1
- United States. Air Force 1
- Van Cleve family 1
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