Skip to main content

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:

Early Farm Machinery Advertisements (SC-177)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-177
Scope and Contents

Late 19th-century advertisements for agricultural machinery.

Dates: 1878-1879

Edward Durst Collection (SC-182)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-182
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1903-1956

Elder-Beerman Dayton Mall Collection (MS-637)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-637
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998 - 2004

Elder-Beerman Staff Photos (SC-222)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-222
Scope and Contents

Two staff photographs from 1962 documenting the 20-Year and 25-year club members, who are identified under the photos.

Dates: 1962

Esplanade Hotel Records (SC-29)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-29
Abstract

Collection contains the minutes from the hotel owners' meetings from 1912 to 1915.

Dates: 1912 - 1915

Farmer's Institute of Bethel Township Records (SC-27)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-27
Abstract

This volume records the minutes of an early 20th-century agricultural improvement society from 1899 to 1909.

Dates: 1899 - 1902

First National Bank of Troy (Ohio) Records (SC-19)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-19
Abstract

This is a letter listing the bank's stockholders and their shares in the institution.

Dates: 1867

Focke Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-394
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913-1971; Majority of material found within 1913-1959

Ermal C. Fraze, Dayton Reliable Tool Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-447
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1949-2006

Frigidaire Historical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-262
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913 - 1998