Bus. Business and Industry
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Early Farm Machinery Advertisements (SC-177)
Late 19th-century advertisements for agricultural machinery.
Edward Durst Collection (SC-182)
Variety of materials concerning Dayton, Ohio, including a Sunday School teacher's class book, first report of the Dayton Department of Public Safety, a report from the Dayton Fire Department, and from Durst Flour Corporation. Dates range from 1903 to 1956.
Elder-Beerman Dayton Mall Collection (MS-637)
The collection consists of administrative and marketing materials collected by the Elder-Beerman store at the Dayton Mall. The two main items in the collection are the marketing plan for the Dayton Mall Elder-Beerman store's grand opening (1998) and the Dayton Mall's merchant manual (2000). There are also store maps, demographics, and information about gift cards. This collection provides insights into popular culture related to shopping malls in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Elder-Beerman Staff Photos (SC-222)
Two staff photographs from 1962 documenting the 20-Year and 25-year club members, who are identified under the photos.
Esplanade Hotel Records (SC-29)
Collection contains the minutes from the hotel owners' meetings from 1912 to 1915.
Farmer's Institute of Bethel Township Records (SC-27)
This volume records the minutes of an early 20th-century agricultural improvement society from 1899 to 1909.
First National Bank of Troy (Ohio) Records (SC-19)
This is a letter listing the bank's stockholders and their shares in the institution.
Focke Family Papers
William Focke and his wife, Bernadine, founded their family meat business, William Focke Son's Company, in 1875 in Dayton, Ohio. The collection contains two folders documenting the Focke family. The collection also documents the family meat packing business through advertisements, patents and agreements, correspondence, price lists, and a scrapbook.
Ermal C. Fraze, Dayton Reliable Tool Company Records
Ermal C. Fraze was the owner of Dayton Reliable Tool Company and the inventor of the early versions of Pull-Tabs and Pop-Tops. This collection includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, scrapbooks, correspondences, photographs and personal items. Most of the collection pertains to the Dayton Reliable Tool Company. A few items deal with the Fraze Pavilion, a 4300-seat outdoor amphitheater in Kettering, Ohio, named after Ermal C. Fraze.
Frigidaire Historical Collection
Collection contains a wide assortment of materials concerning the activities of the Frigidaire Corporation in the Dayton area. Included are materials pertaining to the history of Frigidaire, product manuals and literature, promotional materials, company publications, photographs of executives, plants, and products, clippings, scrapbooks, audio tapes, and films.