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Bus. Business and Industry

 Topic Guide
Identifier: Bus
This classification groups collections on the topic of Business and Industry.

Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:

Independent Awning Company Business Records (MS-644)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-644
Content Description The Independent Awning Company Business Records contain account and order/contract records, as well as photographs of commercial and residential jobs, for a local awning manufacturing company founded in the early 20th century and operational until the early 2000s.Series I: Orders and Accounts, contains records of awning jobs completed for customers. Items marked as "Order" or "Contracts" typically include the specifics of a particular job, usually including a sketch of the...
Dates: 1919 - 2017

Delco Light Frigidaire Convention Badge with Ribbon

 Collection
Identifier: SC-308
Content Description

This collection contains a single metal badge with red ribbon. The badge is inscribed with the words “Delco Light Frigidaire Convention, 1927.” The ribbon was owned by H. H. McLellan, who sold Delco Light plants in Nebraska. He received the ribbon when he attended the convention in Dayton.

Dates: 1927

Machine Tooling Catalogs (SC-259)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-259
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two catalogs. The first is on Turret Lathe Tools, manufactured by the Warner & Swasey Company in Cleveland, Ohio, dated 1926. The second concerns crank shapers, manufactured by the R.A. Kelly Company in Xenia, Ohio.

Dates: 1926, undated

ODOT Structure File: Stewart Street Bridge (SC-260)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-260
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an extensive study of the Stewart Street Bridge in Dayton, Ohio, completed by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) in July 2008. The text contains an extremely thorough compilation of written historical and descriptive data and a bibliography of sources. Also included are 21 negatives and photographs which document the textual history of this Dayton structure.

Dates: 2008 July

Henry Busch Photographs (SC-266)

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: SC-266
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs (originals and reproductions/photocopies) depicting Brookville, Arlington, and downtown Dayton, Ohio, most dating around 1914, though some are as late as 1960. Many of the photographs are labeled and identified, and the primary subjects are Elden Hemp and Henry Busch.

Dates: circa 1900-1960

Historic American Engineering Record: Veterans Memorial Bridge (SC-267)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-267
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the 2008 report of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report on the Veterans Memorial Bridge (also known as the Edwin Moses Bridge) located in Dayton, Ohio. The document is the official bound archival copy which contains a description, brief history, bibliography and 13 photographs documenting the history of this structure.

Dates: 2008

A Legend Rare of Frigidaire

 Collection
Identifier: SC-271
Abstract

This collection consists of a single promotional pamphlet produced by Delco/Frigidaire in 1926. The pamphlet contains a story-poem to describe a fictional story of Aladdin and his "cold chest" [i.e. refrigerator]. This pamphlet provides insight into the creative nature of some of Delco/Frigidaire's promotional material.

Dates: 1926

The Diary of the House in the Woods (SC-273)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-273
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single pamphlet titled "The Diary of the House in the Woods," which was published by the Lowe Brothers Company in Dayton, Ohio. The pamphlet is a combination of two people's diaries. Katherine McDowell and her husband Ned allowed their diaries to be published to explain the development of their house that they built and in which they lived in the woods. The diary entries begin in May of 1918 and continue through October of the same year. The couple also included...
Dates: circa 1918

Boyer Mortuary in the 1913 Dayton Flood Booklet (SC-276)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-276
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one booklet entitled Boyer Mortuary in the 1913 Dayton Flood. The booklet was written by Chip Boyer and is dated 2002. It consists of seven pages mostly of photos of the mortuary and writing on what the flood damage possibly may have been.

Dates: 2002

"High Acres" Landscape Plan (SC-281)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-281
Abstract

High Acres was the Dayton home built for the President of the Rike-Kumler Department Store, Frederick Rike, and his wife Ethel in 1929. It was designed by Cleveland architects Meade and Hamilton and the grounds were designed by Dayton landscape architect Samuel D. Zehrung. This collection consists of one oversize plan of the grounds.

Dates: circa 1929