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LH. Local History

 Topic Guide
Identifier: LH

Staff Only
Collections pertaining to the local history of the Miami Valley of Ohio.

Found in 462 Collections and/or Records:

McFarland Collection of Wright-Findley Correspondence (SC-323)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-323
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of correspondence between Katharine Wright Haskell and Earl N. Findley, as well as a typed copy of correspondence to Katharine from Lord Northcliffe. Also included are a few newspaper clippings, articles, and photographs. Topics of discussion between Katharine and Earl Findley include the possibility of Findley’s writing a book about the Wrights; the patent lawsuit with Glenn Curtiss; the Langley Aerodrome; visits to Dayton; and other (primarily...
Dates: 1910-1928
Found in: Special Collections

Stephen Quick Old Greencastle Cemetery Gravestone Photographs (SC-324)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-324
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of digital photographs of all surviving, visible gravestones at Old Greencastle Cemetery, located at South Broadway and Miami Chapel Road, Dayton, as of February 2019. The photo documentation project was undertaken by local Boy Scout Stephen Quick as his Eagle Scout service project.

Dates: 2018-2019
Found in: Special Collections

Leo Lucas Oral History Interview (SC-262)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-262
Abstract

The collection consists of an oral history interview audio recording with Leo Lucas, a member of the Dayton City School Board during the battle over busing students for desegregation. The interview was conducted in the summer of 1975 by high school student Mark Benbow.

Dates: 1975
Found in: Special Collections

Eleanor Must Oral History (SC-327)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-327
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a single oral history with Eleanor (Hambury) Must, primarily about growing up a German Jew, in Nazi Germany, prior to World War II, and the trials and tribulations she and her family faced not only in getting out of Germany, but also Europe; and also her immigration to the United States and how her early life took shape here. The oral history was conducted on May 15, 2015, by archivist Gino Pasi.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Special Collections

Clark County 1959 Flood Clippings (SC-328)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-328
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, primarily from the Springfield Daily News, concerning flooding in Clark County, Ohio, in late January 1959.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Special Collections

Xenia 1974 Tornado Clippings (SC-329)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-329
Scope and Contents

The collection consists newspaper clippings, primarily from the Springfield News-Sun and Dayton Daily News, concerning the devastating tornado that wreaked havoc on Xenia, Ohio, on April 3, 1974.

Dates: 1974
Found in: Special Collections

Arlene Galloway Dayton Newspaper Headlines Collection (SC-330)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-330
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Dayton newspaper front pages with headlines concerning events such as World War II, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the 1969 moon landing.

Dates: 1941-1969; Majority of material found in 1945
Found in: Special Collections

Arlene Galloway World War II Political Cartoons Collection (SC-331)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-331
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of newspaper clippings of political cartoons concerning World War II, taken from Dayton newspapers.

Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: Special Collections

Edward Hauck World War II Collection (SC-332)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-332
Scope and Contents Edward Hauck was a life-long Dayton resident and World War II veteran. The collection consists of original drawings by a soldier known as “Poncho” (a member of Hauck’s Roger Squad) during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The drawings depict fellow Roger Squad members (including Hauck) and combat scenes. The collection also includes letters (written on the backs of the drawings) from Hauck to his wife back home in Dayton and one photograph of Hauck and his brothers in their military...
Dates: 1944-1945, 1951
Found in: Special Collections

Dr. Fritz J. Russ Correspondence (SC-333)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-333
Abstract

Professional and personal correspondence of Dr. Fritz J. Russ while Chief of the Missile Guidance and Control Group, Air Technical Intelligence Center, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the early 1950s.

Dates: 1951-1954
Found in: Special Collections
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