Pho. Photographic Collections

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Ten oversize photographs taken by Lt. Col. Albert William Stevenson, include aerial photographs and aviation photographs.

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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.

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Two staff photographs from 1962 documenting the 20-Year and 25-year club members, who are identified under the photos.

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Collection of photographs of various airplanes and aircraft. The photos are identified on the back, with more information than what is given in the item list below, including engine information.

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Collection consists of a photograph of a Curtiss Airplane from 1911which was given by Alice Hoffman to Wright State. The photo was taken by Alice’s father in 1911.

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Photographs and negatives of Curtiss H-16 and Curtiss JN-4 airplanes.

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This collection consists of five photo albums documenting the Weaver/Eicher families, during the early part of the twentieth century, including family vacations, recreation, and other aspects of their daily lives in the Miami Valley Region of Ohio and more specifically the town of West Carrollton.

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The collection consists primarily of color slides depicting aircraft, mostly civilian planes at air fields throughout the Miami Valley, with the bulk dating from 1959 to 1988. The slides were in most cases created, and in some cases collected, by Roger Miller, an aviation enthusiast and local historian from Middletown, Ohio.

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Individual 2 ¼” x 3 ¼” black and white portraits of 234 members of the Dayton Cooperative High School graduating class of 1941. Principal Clare Sharkey and Class Advisor Ruth Werst are also included.

Abstract The JR Wedekind Aviation Collection contains a variety of materials, primarily dealing with his work in aviation. The bulk of the collection pertains to the Dayton Air Show and the National Aviation Trail, both of which Wedekind played a vital role in making successful. There are a large number of VHS tapes of the Dayton Air Show and promotional videos for potential air show acts. Business documents, correspondence, photographs and slides tracing the origins and construction of the...