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American Red Cross, Dayton Area Chapter Records
Contains a variety of materials on the establishment and growth of the Red Cross in Dayton as well as the records of the Greene and Preble County Chapters prior to their merger with the Dayton Chapter in 1960. The collection includes Board of Directors and committee meeting minutes, annual reports, programs, extensive correspondence, financial records, audio materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Arnold Family Papers (MS-599)
John C. Beason Papers
The collection consists primarily of materials pertaining to Beason’s service during World War II in the Western Pacific, including several photographs, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and rosters of personnel who also served in the 37th Division Artillery from the group’s reunions. Copies of sketches by Edward J. Dollriehs of the Western Pacific are also included.
Calvin James and Selma Lee Beck Collection (SC-386)
All the photos of this collection were taken sometime between 1941 and 1944 at the Dayton-area Frigidaire Plant 3.
The first folder contains 35 small black and white photos documenting the day-to-day manufacturing of .50 caliber Browning machines guns within Plant 3.
The second folder contains 16 large black and white photos documenting a company event celebrating the 250,000th gun manufactured by Frigidaire. There is a picture of Selma eating cake in this folder.
Rudi Berndt Papers (MS-632)
Berndt was a German scientist who came to the U.S.A. as part of Operation Paperclip at the close of WWII. His collection primarily documents his work in parachute development, in both Germany and the United States, from the WWII era through the Cold War. Materials include photographs, scientific test notes, educational records, security investigation reports, German identification papers, resumes, memoir, and other documents.
Ina Bicknell Collection
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.
Charles and Grace Bost Papers
The Charles and Grace Bost Papers consist of World War II-era correspondence. There are 67 letters between Charles and Grace of Springfield, Ohio. Charles entered the service in July 1942 and was stationed in Tennessee while Grace remained in Springfield, Ohio.
Harold D. Crouch, Jr., Papers (MS-654)
Harold D. Crouch Jr. (1922-2016) served aboard the U.S.S. Knapp during World War II and worked as a technician at the Propeller Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This collection contains the papers and photos related to Crouch's military service and his time at the propeller lab where he worked from 1950 to 1977.
Frederic Earl Ford Papers
Frigidaire Historical Collection
Collection contains a wide assortment of materials concerning the activities of the Frigidaire Corporation in the Dayton area. Included are materials pertaining to the history of Frigidaire, product manuals and literature, promotional materials, company publications, photographs of executives, plants, and products, clippings, scrapbooks, audio tapes, and films.
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- Bastico, Ettore, 1876-1972 1
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- Beck, Selma Lee, 1900-1963 1
- Berndt, Rudi Julius, 1921-2004 1
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- Bost, Charles E., 1911-1997 1
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- Caponi, Roy Peter, 1922-2020 1
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- Crouch, Dana W. 1
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- Ford, Frederic Earl, 1920-1978 1
- Frigidaire T.O.M. (Tired Old Men) Club 1
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- Germany. Luftwaffe 1
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- Gonzalez, Joseph 1
- Graham, William 1
- Harbour (Family : Ohio) 1
- Hauck, Edward Charles, 1909-1991 1
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- Heinrich, Helmut Gustav 1
- Hoener, Richard F., 1918-2007 1
- Holm, Betty Jean, 1924-1993 1
- Houser, John, 1923-2014 1
- J.E.P. Sullivan Co. (Dayton, Ohio) 1
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- Joy, Warren, 1926-2010 1
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- Knapp (Destroyer) 1
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- Ledger, Mary Ann, 1924-2001 1
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- Schneider, Harley R., 1909-2008 1
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- Updyke, Joseph Francis, 1922-1997 1
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- Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 1
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