Bus. Business and Industry

Abstract

The collection contains late 19th and early 20th century business letters, primarily written to the O.S. Kelly Company in Springfield, Ohio.

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This small collection consists of a 1932 Frigidaire warranty for the "all-white Porcelain Frigidaire, Models W-3, WA-3, W-4, WA-4, W-5, W-6, W-10, W-12, and W-18..." In addition to the warranty the company envelope in which it came is also included.

Scope and Contents The collection contains 33 photographs taken by various photographers at the McCall Corporation building in Dayton, Ohio, between the years 1923-1967. Two of the images bear the photographer’s stamp of William Preston Mayfield. Another was taken by Jackson W. Armstrong Photography. And a fourth image is marked “Kaufmann & Abry” for the famous architectural photography firm. The other images in the collection contain no descriptive or copyright information on the back though it is...

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.

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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.

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The Ohler & Buchanan Livery Stable Records document daily transactions including sales, expenses, services and customers of a Wapakoneta- St. Mary's, Ohio, livery business in the 19th century.

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The collection consists of financial records for Pleasant Hill Bank of Miami County, Ohio.

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The James A. Chew Papers consist mainly of business records of three area newspapers in the Miami Valley Region: the Xenia Gazette, the Piqua Call, and the Middletown Journal. Headquarters for the Chew Publishing Company was in Xenia, Ohio.

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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 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.