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LH. Local History

 Topic Guide
Identifier: LH
Collections pertaining to the local history of the Miami Valley of Ohio.

Found in 911 Collections and/or Records:

Ohio 93rd Regimental History (SC-248)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-248
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a typed transcript of the history of the 93rd O.V.I , primarily drawn from a diary by Silas Crowell. The material is undated.

Dates: undated

Airfield Slide Collection (SC-249)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-249
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 35 slides of various airfields, primarily ones local to the Dayton, Ohio, region. The dates range between 1920s-1940s.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Kettering Children's Choir 25th Anniversary Book (SC-250)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-250
Dates: 2010

NCR Factory News and Construction Photographs (SC-251)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-251
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 11 photographs of construction projects at NCR during the period of 1955-1957. Also included are select pages from NCR's Factory News, with articles from May-October 1957 on construction projects.

Dates: 1955-1957

Pictograph of WPAFB and Its Master Plan (SC-255)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-255
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the oversize pictograph book of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its master plan, produced from data collected and edited by the Deputy of Air Installations in 1948. As stated on the first page, the purpose of the book was “to show certain facilities existing and certain facilities needed” at the base. It contains forty pages.

Dates: 1948

Steele High School Class of 1915 Portraits (SC-256)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-256
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1915

Dayton Police Souvenir Book (SC-288)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-288
Scope and Contents

Souvenir book depicting the 1902 Dayton Police Department.

Dates: 1902

1932 Frigidaire Warranty (SC-290)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-290
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of a 1932 Frigidaire warranty for the "all-white Porcelain Frigidaire, Models W-3, WA-3, W-4, WA-4, W-5, W-6, W-10, W-12, and W-18..." In addition to the warranty the company envelope in which it came is also included.

Dates: 1932

Roz Young Manuscript (SC-292)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-292
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one typed manuscript by Roz Young, titled Two Perfectly Marvelous Cats. It would be published in 1995. This early copy, along with a letter, also in the collection, dates from 1994 and was sent to a friend of Young's named Francis Ryder.

Dates: 1994-1995

Diary of Sarah Louise Reed Brown (SC-295)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-295
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a single transcription of the diary of Sarah Louise (Reed) Brown. The diary transcription was edited by Martha A. Gavin and Sarah H. Conrad.

Dates: undated