Bus. Business and Industry

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Price booklets and instruction lists for WACO Custom Cabins from the late 1930s

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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.

Scope and Contents The collection contains a single ledger book detailing the Reliable Jack Company’s business finances between 1934 and 1940. It details purchases and payments made, taxes paid, and business conducted during this period. Additionally, there are pages recording payroll expenditures, as well as the sale and repair of hydraulic jacks. The ledger also includes other companies that the Reliable Jack Company did business with, such as the Dayton Malleable Iron Co. The types of financial exchanges...

Scope and Contents Frigidaire recipe book used as advertising for GM's Frigidaire division, dated 1931. The booklet contains recipes, mostly for desserts and salads, tailored to use the features of a Frigidaire refrigerator. Recipes for desserts include dishes like custards and creams, mousses, parfaits, and sherbets. Salads included are vegetable salads, fruit salads, and meat salads, as well as salad dressing recipes to accompany each salad type. A final section includes instructions for making decorative...

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

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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.

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This collection contains 11 photographs of construction projects at NCR during the period of 1955-1957. Also included are select pages from NCR's Factory News, with articles from May-October 1957 on construction projects.

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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.

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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.

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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.