LH. Local History
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
Beta Phi Omega Fraternity History Collection (MS-601)
Dayton Rose Society Records (MS-602)
The Dayton Rose Society was organized in 1933, and these records contain the society’s monthly meeting minutes, events, news clippings, and photos from 1933 to 1959.
Records of Dayton Together: Advocating for Metro Government (MS-603)
Lenny Davis Collection (MS-610)
Lenny Davis operated the Forvm Club (Forum Club) in Dayton from 1965 until 1977. The scrapbooks of this collection contain memorabilia, photos, letters, and newspaper clippings about the club, as well as Lenny’s various performances, both solo and in bands. Additionally, there are many individual photos outside the scrapbooks that further document Lenny’s life and career, as well as club entertainers. This collection also includes audio/video recordings and posters.
Greene County Fair Board Records
This collection consists of copies of the official programs of the Greene County Fair from 1959-1977.
Historical Theater Programs Collection (MS-87)
A miscellaneous collection of theater programs from several American cities, including Dayton and Cincinnati.
Sonny Flaharty Collection
This collection contains materials on the musical career of Sonny Flaharty. The collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents.
Noah Elwood Weaver Photograph Albums
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.
Roger Miller Aviation Slide Collection
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.
General Motors Aeroproducts Division Plant Blueprints Collection
The collection consists of large blueprints of structures and systems at the General Motors Aeroproducts Division plant located in Vandalia, Ohio. The majority of the blueprints date to 1940-1941, but later blueprints reflect the plant’s subsequent iterations as GM Allison Division, Inland Division, and Delco Products.
