Bus. Business and Industry

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a medium-sized fold-out map of the city of Dayton for 1925. The map also details demographic data for 1925 as well as a list of general business areas labeled where “Dayton Leads the World in Manufacture.” The map was produced by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce.

Abstract

The collection consists of a scattered collection of Dayton Power and Light publications including the Forward (1933-1972), the DP&L News (1972-1975), DP&L People (1984-1986), and QP Today (1985-1986). Publications contain information about the history of DP&L, the utilities industry, and management and marketing trends within the industry.

Abstract

Consists of a single scrapbook containing 113 images of telephone pole lines in Dayton, Ohio.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of seven Dayton-Wright Company "Record of Employee" envelopes spanning the period 1922 to 1924. Each envelope provides the following information: name of the employee, address, marital status, age, person to notify in case of emergency, date of employment, department assigned, foreman of the department, rate of pay, and class of work. Inside the envelope are pay slips and other information about the employee, including the reason for termination.

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.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one scrapbook chronicling the Delco-Moraine Plant's intramural sports events in 1946. The scrapbook is made up entirely of newspaper clippings.

The scrapbok also contained a small employee photo of Arnold Rike and a clipping from 10/24/1973.

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...

Abstract The DURIRON Corporation was founded in 1912 by Dayton foundry man, Pierce D. Schenk, and two associates, J. Richman Pitman, a DuPont explosives production engineer, and William F. Hall, a New York Financier. The company derives its name from a high silicon cast iron alloy, DURIRON, which rapidly became an industry standard for handling extremely corrosive materials. Their records consist of administrative records, sales records, manuals, newsletters, photographs, negatives, and...

Abstract

This collection contains the daily accounting ledger for Eagle Clothing House, located in Troy, Ohio. The first recorded date is Thursday, September 4, 1890, and the last date is Monday, September 19, 1892.