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Collection
Identifier: MFM-80
Scope and Contents
The records of this Piqua church include a chronology of church history, congregational minutes, church registers, and membership lists.
Dates:
1817-1947
Collection
Identifier: MS-174
Abstract
A collection of 19th and early 20th century papers consisting mainly of the family correspondence of the Wheeler and Betts families as they moved around the Midwest. The correspondence is concerned with the health of family members, courtship, farm and crop information, and church matters. National events are mentioned occasionally.
Dates:
1839-1921
Collection
Identifier: MS-31
Abstract
Stage and silent screen actress during the 1920s, White was born in New Lebanon, Ohio April 27, 1882. During her middle and later years, she was involved in charitable and civic causes in Dayton, Ohio. The Dorothy K. White Papers are a collection of personal papers, photographs, and newspaper articles on music, screen and stage, and society. These papers reflect Dorothy's active involvement in civic and community life and convey evidence of largely twentieth century social history, with...
Dates:
1882-1976
Collection
Identifier: MS-465
Abstract
Dr. Stanley C. White was a pioneer in the design of life support systems for space travel. He worked as an aerospace doctor with the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab programs. He was the president of both Aerospace Medical Association and International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine. Dr. White's collection contains photographs, slides, and papers from his career. Many of the photographs are from his work at NASA and his papers contain the selection of astronauts. There are many...
Dates:
1950-2000; Majority of material found within 1961-1979
Collection
Identifier: MS-456
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and photographs chronicling Joyce Whitmore’s life as a student pilot in the Civilian Pilot Training Program at the College of Idaho in Caldwell. Contents include newspaper articles she wrote about her experience, photographs of her classmates and instructors, and photographs of aircraft and airports she encountered throughout the western United States. Whitmore was also a distant cousin of the Wright Brothers.
Dates:
1939-1941
Collection
Identifier: MS-241
Abstract
Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet propulsion engine, proposing the use of the gas turbine for jet propulsion in 1928. He patented his idea in 1930. The first jet aircraft flew in 1941. Whittle's engine technology was shared with the United States government and became the foundation for the American jet aircraft program. The papers in the collection document Whittle's invention of the jet engine and include correspondence, technical and design reports, photographs, charts, and engineering...
Dates:
1936-1964
Collection
Identifier: SC-103
Scope and Contents
Sheet music and RCA phonograph recording of "Who Knows".
Dates:
1915
Collection
Identifier: MS-313
Abstract
The Widows Home of Dayton Collection chronicles the history of the home from its inception in 1870 through 2002. The collection includes pictures, slides, deeds, daily census records, board minutes, newspaper clippings and administration records, including budgets and fund raising activities from the beginning of the home to the present.
Dates:
1870-2002
Collection
Identifier: SC-226
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two postcards from the Wilbur Wright Birthplace commemorating the 100th anniversary of flight. They are coved with a copper coil and the design of the postcard is
Dates:
2003
Collection
Identifier: SC-151
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one copy of the “Wilbur Wright Field Christmas Book,” published and distributed by Post Exchange No. 1, Wilbur Wright Field for Christmas, 1918. The book primarily consists of advertisements for companies, retail stores, and hotels in the Dayton, Ohio area. Of interest in the book are a number of articles including: “Now that the War is Over;” “The War in the Air,” by Henry Woodhouse; “Air Service Now Made Into Six Districts;” “How I Made the Altitude Record of...
Dates:
1918 Dec