LH. Local History

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United Presbyterian Women’s Association was an organization that existed within the College Hill congregation of the United Presbyterian Church. This collection contains minutes, newsletters, programs, financial, membership, and other organizational records.

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A collection of diaries kept by members of the Watervliet Community of Shakers near Dayton, Ohio. The diaries of Nathaniel Taylor (1823-1830), Henry Reynolds (1854-1856), James Prescott (1842), Richard Pelham (1834-1840), and Moses Eastwood are included. The collection also includes a 2-volume autobiography of Elder Issachar Bates.

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The organization's bylaws, officer's roster, ritual manual and ceremony book are also included in the collection, as are photographs, correspondence and a file of miscellaneous loose material.

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The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area (UWGDA) was founded shortly after the 1913 flood. The United Way fundraises through workplace payroll deduction campaigns, in support of local nonprofit affiliates, to support health and human services agencies. The collection includes minutes, financial records, news clippings, press releases and newsletters, camapaign marketing materials and reports, agency directories, photographs, and audiovisual materials.

Abstract The collection consists primarily of correspondence written and received by Joseph F. “Bud” Updyke, a lifelong resident of Oakwood, during his World War II service in the U.S. Army at Fort Knox (Armored Force Replacement Training Center), England, and France. Subjects included military life and clerical work, interpersonal relationships, train travel, rationing and food shortages, base and barracks conditions, entertainment, weather, historic sites and scenery, holidays, and mail service....

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The Upper River Fund was an endowment fund established in 1992 by Glenn Thompson and his wife Margaret, to preserve the upper Little Miami and the Mad Rivers. The collection contains meeting minutes and correspondence; financial records and reports, records from easement agreements to buy/sell agreements; and some photographs of prospective areas of land and topographical maps that outline easements along the upper Little Miami and Mad Rivers.

Abstract The material within the Urbana Typographical Union No. 747 collection is divided into two series dealing with administrative and financial records. The arrangement is chronological within the various folders.Series I: Administrative deals primarily with membership concerns, with materials dating between 1913 and 1976. Names of those in the union can be located in these books. Correspondence is not too extensive little material on the running of the union (operations...

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This collection consists of four items: one Funeral registry for Felix Carl Utermoehlen; two newspaper clippings, one titled "Watched Ghouls Work As Flood Victims Cried in Vain for Assistance" which details scenes viewed by Mrs. Felix Utermoehlen, and another clipping on Felix's father, Theodore Utermoehlen who served as a mechanic for the Wright Brothers; and also an envelope containing the funeral purchase agreement.

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Vaszin was a Dayton designer and manufacturer of amusement rides and equipment. His papers include clippings concerning his business, certificates of merit for trade involvements, and a small collection of photographs.

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Consists of death and funeral service records (1875-1936) as well as volumes listing residents (1867-1912), Board of Managers' reports (1867-1913), and copies of General and Special Orders which contain information on individuals discharged from the Center (1876-1913).