LH. Local History

Abstract Dayton Together was a 501(c)4 organization with a purpose to advocate for consolidating some or all of the townships, villages, and cities in Montgomery County into a metro government. This collection consists of organizational materials such as dissenting opinions, charter drafts, event flyers, and brand-related files on the organization. There are research studies, commissioned by them and external to the organization, that Dayton Together used. The collection also includes newspaper...

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Contains a fairly complete run of minutes for the years 1866-1968 as well as legal reports, financial ledgers and journals, membership records, correspondence, and a variety of printed materials. The minutes include reports from the Executive Board and various committees, and summary financial information. Membership records contain much information on the union's apprenticeship program.

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The Dayton Unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1915, six years after the national organization was established in 1909. The collection includes brief summary histories of the organization, annual reports, program books from the annual Freedom Fund Banquet, and newspaper articles.

Abstract The Dayton Urban League was chartered in 1947. In conjunction with a nation-wide League Network, the Dayton Urban League made an important contribution to the general welfare of the local community through its services to African-Americans in Dayton. The League attempted to improve employment opportunities, accelerate guidance programs for young people, initiate greater participation of Blacks in the activities of other welfare agencies and civic organizations, and to improve the climate of...

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The collection consists of 3 DVDs of Dayton Warbirds footage and 1 DVD of Dayton Bulldogs footage. Both were indoor football league teams.

Abstract Organized in 1975, Dayton Women Working was a feminist organization concerned with insuring equal employment opportunities locally for women and minorities. The records consist of meeting minutes, by-laws, membership records, progress reports, newsletters, broadsides, and files documenting DWW's public programs and projects including a study of discrimination in three Dayton banks. There is also material pertaining to DWW's affiliation with other working women's organizations and the...

Abstract The Dayton Women’s Center was founded in 1974 by a group of Dayton-Area feminists and closed in January, 1981. It was created to provide a space for local women to meet, organize around feminist issues, and share common interests and concerns. The records consist of organizational and founding papers, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, and membership surveys. As well as newsletters, clippings, news releases, subject files, photographs, and literature, pamphlets, brochures,...

Abstract Established in Kettering, Ohio, in September 1973, the Dayton Women's Health Center provided a variety of women's reproductive health services, including pregnancy tests, contraceptives, and abortions. This collection consists of the DWHC's administrative records, legal records, newspaper clippings, photographs, audiovisual materials, and memorabilia. Also included are materials on the abortion debate, such as pro-choice and pro-life brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and other literature;...

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Records consist of a fairly complete run of the organization's newsletter which gives information about the group's meetings and activities and includes short articles discussing the politics and ideology of the Women's Movement. In addition, the collection contains leaflets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials.

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The collection consists of a single metal badge/pin (believed to be copper). The front of the pin includes an image of a biplane, the text "The Dayton Wright Airplane Co. Dayton Ohio," and the number 15046 (presumably an employee identification number of some kind). The item measures approximately 1-1/2 inches wide by 1-1/8 inches tall.