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Marathon Hills Agreement (SC-383)
Collection
Identifier: SC-383
Content Description
The Marathon Hills Agreement consists of a 5-page legal document outlining the business partnership of 10 individuals in developing a plat that would later be known as the Marathon Hills development, in Section 20 of Harrison Township, near Marathon Avenue just east of Salem Avenue. Although the term "Marathon Hills" does not appear in the document itself, it is written on the envelope in which the document was received, and it can be found in newspaper articles of the era describing the...
Dates:
1919 Aug. 11
Found in:
Special Collections
Dr. Joshua Martin Collection
Collection
Identifier: FSC-4
Abstract
Dr. Joshua Martin was a well-known physician in Xenia, Ohio, from 1813 to 1857. The collection consists of two diplomas, written in Latin, that Martin earned from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1826.
Dates:
1826
Found in:
Special Collections
Dr. Samuel Martin Papers
Collection
Identifier: FSC-5
Abstract
Dr. Samuel Martin was a well-known physician in Xenia, Ohio. During the course of his career he trained many physicians and was an active member of the Ohio State Medical Society. His papers document his training as a physician at the University of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland. Included in his papers are admission tickets for training he attended in Ireland and his diploma, his Naturalization certificate, and various certificates documenting his membership in...
Dates:
1816-1879
Found in:
Special Collections
Glenn L. Martin Company Records (SC-91)
Collection — Drawer: OS 61, Folder: 4
Identifier: SC-91
Abstract
Information regarding Martin Company financial statements.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Special Collections
Martini Church of Christ Records (MFM-54)
Collection
Identifier: MFM-54
Scope and Contents
Originally known as the German Evangelical Protestant St. Martin's Church of Lick Run, the Martini Church of Christ was founded in 1851. This collection contains two volumes of records. The first lists baptisms, confirmations, marriages, funerals, and communicants. The second is a transcription of funeral records from the first volume. All records are in German until 1913. This is a Cincinnati church.
Dates:
1839-1941
Found in:
Special Collections
George J. Martz Collection
Collection
Identifier: FSC-42
Abstract
Dr. Martz graduated from the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio in March 1891. He began his medical practice in Palestine, Darke County, and eight years later moved his practice to Greenville, Ohio. The notebook contains detailed notes from his course work in Medical School. Written in longhand, notes are on a variety of medical ailments and treatments. Included in the back of the notebook is a list of prescriptions for various ailments including their ingredients. Included is a...
Dates:
1890-1891, 1897; Majority of material found within 1890-1891
Found in:
Special Collections
Mary Winter Letter to Mrs. Tasker (Eleanor) Bliss (SC-301)
Collection
Identifier: SC-301
Scope and Contents
This two-page letter and accompanying envelope is from Mrs. Francis (Mary) Winter to Mrs. Tasker (Eleanor) Bliss. Mrs. Winter's husband, Major Francis A. Winter, was the surgeon who cared for Orville Wright at the hospital at Fort Myer, Virginia, after Wright's September 17, 1908 crash there. The accident resulted in the death of Wright's passenger, U. S. Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, whose death is considered the first powered airplane fatality. In the letter Winter devotes an entire...
Dates:
1908
Found in:
Special Collections
Matthews-Howard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-248
Abstract
Graduates of Wilberforce University, Rev. Wesley Matthews and his wife, Ruth "Pat" Matthews, were active in civil rights, church work, and community organizing in the Dayton, Yellow Springs, and Urbana, Ohio areas. After Rev. Matthews died in 1978, Pat Matthews remarried Wendell Howard, a Springfield pharmacist. Papers in this collection include business and personal correspondence from both families, records from a depression-era WPA education program in Clark County, family photographs, a...
Dates:
1908 - 1992
Found in:
Special Collections
William Preston Mayfield Photograph Collection-Egbert Donation (MS-348)
Collection
Identifier: MS-348
Abstract
The collection consist of William Preston Mayfield Photographs of the Wright brothers' first flights; early pilots, early planes and helicopters; photos of Dayton area businesses, homes, churches, and monuments; as well as aerial shots of the Miami valley, downtown Columbus, and the Ohio State University. Also included are some photographs taken by F. Hermes. Postcards are of early flights, the Wright Flyer, The Wright Brothers Celebration, flights in Europe, other early pilots, European...
Dates:
1910-1960
Found in:
Special Collections
McCall/Dayton Press Photographs (SC-296)
Collection
Identifier: SC-296
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...
Dates:
1923-1967
Found in:
Special Collections