Weather -- History

Scope and Contents The Blizzard of 1978 technically refers to the period from January 25 to January 27, 1978, when more than 1 foot of snow fell across the Miami Valley.However, this VIP file includes any and all snow pictures from the period of January through March 1978 are included here. This is primarily to avoid future filing confusion; nevertheless, it seems likely that pre-existing snow that the Dayton area had already received over the first few weeks of January probably...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a microfilm copy of a single diary. The diary's title page says "Father Bomgardner Wm. Wilson Weather Diary Route 5." The first part of the volume includes a weather log with daily notations, from January 1909 through June 1912. The second part of the volume consists of a brief autobiography of William H. Bomgardner (11 pages) that appears to date between 1906 and 1915. In the autobiography, Bomgardner describes traveling from Maryland to Ohio with his parents in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Subject VIP Files contain photographs of subjects the newspaper staff deemed to be of high use or high importance. These files also aggregated files on the same topic, pulling them together from the various multiple different filing systems, for efficiency and convenience.