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"Fly to Dayton" Pin-Back Button (SC-207)
Collection
Identifier: SC-207
Scope and Contents
Button depicting a high-winged monoplane above a city skyline with the slogan "Fly to Dayton" dated 1929.
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Special Collections
Wilbur Wright Field Christmas Book
Collection
Identifier: SC-151
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one copy of the “Wilbur Wright Field Christmas Book,” published and distributed by Post Exchange No. 1, Wilbur Wright Field for Christmas, 1918. The book primarily consists of advertisements for companies, retail stores, and hotels in the Dayton, Ohio area. Of interest in the book are a number of articles including: “Now that the War is Over;” “The War in the Air,” by Henry Woodhouse; “Air Service Now Made Into Six Districts;” “How I Made the Altitude Record of...
Dates:
1918 Dec
Found in:
Special Collections
Wright Field, Materiel Division Field and Hangar Pass
Collection
Identifier: SC-153
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a brass medallion, 1 ¼” in diameter, with the number 1018 imprinted in the middle. Imprinted around the number, in a circular pattern, is “Materiel Div. Wright Field.” The donor indicates, in the accession documents, that the item was a Field and Hangar Pass. Since the Material Division of the Army Air Corps did not move to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, until 1927, the earliest this item can be dated is 1927. The exact date is unknown.
Dates:
after 1927
Found in:
Special Collections