LH. Local History

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Correspondence to and from Joyce Carol Oates from WSU concerning potential visit.

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Stivers directory from 1927.

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Original and transcribed copies of letters from Katharine Wright to Mrs. J.B. Guthrie (Florence), a newspaper article concerning Orville Wright, and a 1933 telegram to Florence Guthrie's daughter, Jeanne Guthrie from Orville Wright.

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Student paper written by Megan Nealis in December 1998 concerning Jerusha Peacock.

Scope and Contents Photographs most likely taken May 1910 at Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio, during attempts to set altitude records.According to the donor of the photographs the flight was taken on May 20-25, 1910 at Sims Field now Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. The flights were flown to achieve the altitude record and got up to 1800 feet a new record. The airplane was a 1909 Wright Flyer transition model or the number 2 design. The photos were taken by Mr. Martin of Springfield, Ohio who rode the...

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This collection consists of three sets of architectural drawings of homes in the Dayton area, including the homes of Gordon T. Milde, W. A. Chryst, and John and Ellen Berry.

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Stereo Card of the Wright B Flyer flying over Simms Station later Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. The image bears the copyright of the Keystone View Company for 1910. The company entitled the image “Conquering the Air-Wright Brothers Airship Flying at Dayton, Ohio.”

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Color lithograph postcard that depicts an aerial view of Oakwood Extension, now part of Kettering, Ohio. It was published as an advertising piece for the Spaite-Wright Realty Company.

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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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Program for the Hamilton-Fairfield WACO fly-in, circa 1985