FLD. 1913 Flood History Collections

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Diary of Margaret Smell who was visiting Dayton from Michigan during the 1913 flood. Transcription of flood related sections available.

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Two accounts of the 1913 Dayton Flood.

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Reports, pamphlets, and studies relating to the Miami Conservancy District.

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Booklet recounting the Dayton 1913 Flood, with copies of hand-colored photographs of flood and resident memories of the event.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A microfilm copy of MS-75. Original manuscript collection has received additional records and/or processing since it was microfilmed.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single newspaper supplement, "Supplement to The Osborn Local," of Osborn, Ohio, volume XXXI (31), issue number 21, dated March 5, 1914. The entire supplement is dedicated to the impending flood control measures to be undertaken by the Miami Conservancy District to protect the Miami Valley from flooding, following the devastating flood of 1913. The main headline on the front page reads: "Facing Forward: The progress and future of flood prevention in the Miami...

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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.