Pho. Photographic Collections

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...

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Collection consists of 89 photographs and four handwritten notes created by Dayton photographer Jane Reece, and owned by Josephine Schwarz. Contains portraits of Josephine and Hermene Schwarz, the Schwarz family, two self-portraits, and nature photographs.

Abstract This collection highlights the work and family of Dayton poet, Paul Shivell. An accomplished poet published in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, Shivell was recognized for his pastoral poems which were published in several books and collections. Included in the collection are several original portraits by noted Dayton photographer Jane Reece, who was a close family friend of the Shivells and who took portraits of them throughout several decades. Other documents note the Shivells’...

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This collection contains two photos of an airplane designed and built by Charles Snyder of Osborn (now part of Fairborn), Ohio, plus an article about Fairfield and Osborn (combined to form Fairborn).

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This collection contains one large composite print containing the portraits of the Class of 1915 from Steele High School in Dayton, Ohio. No pictures are identified.

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Daguerreotype image of Susan Koerner Wright in wood frame and two copy prints of the image.

Abstract Bill Sweet, Announcer and Director of the National Air Shows, was well-known in the world of air racing and air shows from the 1930s until his death in 1978. His collection consists of air show programs and press releases, air show newspaper clipping scrapbooks from the 1930s and 1940s, more than a thousand photographs of air shows events, including air show stunts and personalities, film of a number of air races and air shows, and a variety of memorabilia, including certificates of...

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The Edmund Trissell Collection chronicles the life of Dayton photographer Edmund William Trissell through negatives, photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from Mr. Trissell's daily life and photographic assignments.

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Two Daguerreotypes of an unknown man.