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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Buildings 25 & 24,10-foot & 2...

Significance: The 10-Foot and 20-Foot Wind Tunnel complex houses a variety of specialized testing and support facilities, most notably the tunnels themselves. Research conducted in these facilities contributed... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Buildings 25 & 24,10-foot & 2...

Significance: The 10-Foot and 20-Foot Wind Tunnel complex houses a variety of specialized testing and support facilities, most notably the tunnels themselves. Research conducted in these facilities contributed... More

Only a motto God bless our home

Colonel O.V. Dayton, 19th U.S. Veteran R. Corps

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National military home at Dayton, Ohio

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Congressmen Heflin, Linthicum, Littleton, Dayton

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Trailsend, Home of Gov. Cox, Dayton, Ohio

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Mrs. D.J. Mahoney, Christens Dayton - Wright plane

A group of people standing around an airplane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lorin Wright pulling his daughter Leontine, age three, on a sled]

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[Milton Wright, Ivonette Wright, and Leontine Wright seated on sled]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 158. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... More

Printing dept., National Cash Register, Dayton, O[hio]

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Foliage and east window of officers' club, National Cash Register [Com...

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Looking east from Dayton View, Dayton, O[hio]

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[National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Worker vegetable garden...

Site History. Landscape: John Charles Olmsted, from 1896. Other: John Henry Patterson was founder of National Cash Register Company. Today: Garden not extant. On slide (printed): "Property of National Cash Regi... More

[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of th...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 24. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of th...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 24. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Dayton - Streetcar capsized by flood

Photo shows the Great Dayton Flood of March 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Early automobiles - After flood, Dayton

Photo shows the Great Dayton Flood of March 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Rescue work, Dayton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows the Great Dayton Flood of March 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Factory Inspectors Past and Present. From left to right: Miss Ella Haa...

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[Group picture of Orville Wright, Bishop Milton Wright, Katharine Wrig...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 39. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Farm near Dayton, Ohio - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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Barn on farm near Dayton, Ohio - safety film negatives, Library of Con...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Retouching a used cash re...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exte...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A boring operation on the...

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The mouthpiece of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazine requires many mill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dayton Manufacturing Co., 342 Madison Ave., New York City. Sample lava...

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 70, Fuel & Oil Test ...

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Portion of a mural ("Have a Rice Day") by Dayton Wodrich on building i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22, Armament Laborat...

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 71, Power Plant Engi...

Significance: Building 71 is part of the Power Plant Laboratory Complex, the site of essential aircraft engine research and development, particularly during the 1930s and '40s. It was the location of Wright Fi... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 51, Foundry-Garage, ...

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 51, Foundry-Garage, ...

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Walton-Bruce House, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-140 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

James Laws House, 818 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 11, Administration B...

Significance: Building 11 was the first Air Corps building constructed at Wright Field (with Building 16). It served as the original Wright Field headquarters of the Army Air Corps Materiel Division. Unproces... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 20, Propeller Labora...

Significance: Built incrementally from 1927 until 1942, this structure has specialized construction designed to accommodate the testing of propellers and drive motors as well as containing space for supporting ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Library...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-W National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types G & H...

Significance: The most prevalent building types in the Brick Quarters complex are the "G" and "H." These nearly identical detached or single company officers' quarters are the smallest of the group, consisting... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types G & H...

Significance: The most prevalent building types in the Brick Quarters complex are the "G" and "H." These nearly identical detached or single company officers' quarters are the smallest of the group, consisting... More

Kroger Grocery Store, 531-535 Salem Avenue, Dayton, Montgomery County,...

Significance: This building is significant for its contribution to the commercial development of the Steele's Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District; a district which was listed on the National Register of Histori... More

Newcom Tavern, Van Cleve Park, East Monument Avenue, Dayton, Montgomer...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey number: HABS OH-627 Building/structure dates: 1796 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1840 Subsequent Work

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, House, ...

Significance: One of only two single residences remaining at the Soldiers' National Home, this house is an eclectic composition combining Shingle Style, Queen Anne and Tudor features, but has been altered. Sur... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, House, ...

Significance: One of only two single residences remaining at the Soldiers' National Home, this house is an eclectic composition combining Shingle Style, Queen Anne and Tudor features, but has been altered. Sur... More

808-938 Dayton Street & 923 Bank Street, 808-938 Dayton Street & 923 B...

Significance: Established by ordinance in 1965, the Dayton Street Historic Interest Area contains 3 designated areas to be preserved. The primary focus is upon "Area A," that part of the Interest Area between L... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 71A, Propulsion Rese...

Significance: Building 71A is part of the Power Plant Laboratory Complex, the site of essential aircraft engine research and development, particularly during the 1930s and '40s. It was built to expand the comp... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types C & D...

Significance: The majority of the quarters within the Brick Officers' Quarters complex are doubles (or duplex), represented by plan Types "C," "D," "E" and "F." While together the doubles represent 23 structur... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types C & D...

Significance: The majority of the quarters within the Brick Officers' Quarters complex are doubles (or duplex), represented by plan Types "C," "D," "E" and "F." While together the doubles represent 23 structur... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Protest...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-X National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Protest...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-X National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Protest...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-X National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 22B, 200-Yard Gun Ra...

Significance: Building 22B was built during World War II as part of the Building 22 Armament Laboratory complex. It housed a gun range designed for specialized testing of aircraft gun systems. Survey number: ... More

837 Dayton Street (House), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 16, Wright Field Lab...

Significance: This was the first building completed at Wright Field (together with Building 11) and served as the original laboratory building. Many unique and well-known projects were researched and conducted... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Mess Ha...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Mess Ha...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Methodist Church, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-149 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 6, Signal Corps Spec...

Significance: Part of the Wright Field flightline complex constructed during World War II, this hangar was used during the war by the Signal Corps Special Forces for radio and antenna installation. Unprocessed... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types E & F...

Significance: The majority of quarters within the Brick Officers' Quarters complex are doubles, represented by plan types "C," "D," "E" and "F." Together the doubles represent 23 structures which comprise 46 o... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Types E & F...

Significance: The majority of quarters within the Brick Officers' Quarters complex are doubles, represented by plan types "C," "D," "E" and "F." Together the doubles represent 23 structures which comprise 46 o... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Mainten...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-AC National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

808 Dayton Street (House), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Significance: This is a moderately large town house in the vernacular idiom that illustrates the change in Cincinnati from the architectural style of the late classical revival to Italianate Victorian design. I... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Headqua...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-N National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Won't you buy my pretty flowers

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 81/82, Main Gate, Gu...

Significance: The Guard House and Passenger Station flanked either side of Wright Field's main entrance until a new entrance was created in 1943. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N121... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Four-Un...

Significance: Dating from 1912, Building 217 is the only building at the facility that displays elements of the Craftsman style, such as splayed porch piers, a shed dormer, and exposed rafter ends. Survey numb... More

Paul Laurence Dunbar Barn, 219 North Summit Street, Dayton, Montgomery...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-60 Survey number: HABS OH-218-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000619

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Adminis...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-AD National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 38, Maintenance Buil...

Significance: The architecture of Building 38 is typical of the early construction of Wright Field. It is unique in that it has undergone very little modification and still retains its original function, autom... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, House, ...

Significance: This house is the oldest single residence on the campus of the Soldiers' National Home. Survey number: HABS OH-2364-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, House, ...

Significance: This house is the oldest single residence on the campus of the Soldiers' National Home. Survey number: HABS OH-2364-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 23, Static Test Labo...

Significance: This building was the site of static structures tests on many World War II and earlier aircraft. It exhibits architecture typical of the early period of construction at Wright Field. Unprocessed... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 23, Static Test Labo...

Significance: This building was the site of static structures tests on many World War II and earlier aircraft. It exhibits architecture typical of the early period of construction at Wright Field. Unprocessed... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Staff D...

Survey number: HABS OH-2364-S National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 03001412

Skaats-Hauck House, 812 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Significance: This is a large, elegant house, typical of the more costly later nineteenth-century town houses built in Cincinnati. It is one of several such houses built at the same time with elaborate fronts i... More

Skaats-Hauck House, 812 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Significance: This is a large, elegant house, typical of the more costly later nineteenth-century town houses built in Cincinnati. It is one of several such houses built at the same time with elaborate fronts i... More

Magnolia Grove, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-153 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 94000687

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brick Officers' Quarters, Type B, Day...

Significance: The residence of the commanding officer (also known as the Robins House for its first occupant, Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins) was erected along with the other buildings in the Brick Q... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, 4100 We...

Significance: The Soldiers National Home in Dayton, Ohio, built in 1867, was the largest and most ambitious of the three original soldiers' national homes established by the United States government following t... More

Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store, 537-541 Salem Avenue, Dayton, Montgomery ...

Significance: This building is significant for its contribution to the commercial development of the Steele's Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District; a district which was listed on the National Register of Histori... More

Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store, 537-541 Salem Avenue, Dayton, Montgomery ...

Significance: This building is significant for its contribution to the commercial development of the Steele's Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District; a district which was listed on the National Register of Histori... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 20A, Propeller T...

Significance: This concrete acoustical structure was built during World War II to surround an outdoor propeller test area and craneway. The unique concrete tube construction was a response to the need to muffl... More

Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, 2335 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, Montgomery Co...

Significance: State of Ohio second major institution for the insane. Plans for the building were based on the first uniform plan of hospital construction, developed by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride of Philadelphia, a kn... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 19, Five-Foot Wi...

Significance: Building 19 is one of Wright Field's original buildings, today virtually unchanged and still serving the same function. The Five-Foot Wind Tunnel inside is the oldest operating wind tunnel in exi... More

Allan Gazlay House, 824 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Significance: This is a large, elegant house, typical of the more costly later nineteenth-century town houses built in Cincinnati. It is one of several such houses built at the same time with elaborate fronts i... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 8, Operations & Flig...

Significance: Building 8, the Operations and Flight Test Building, was an integral part of Wright Field's World War II expansion. At this time ti housed the newly formed Flight Test Division, and also Wright F... More

Old Montgomery County Courthouse, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, Montgo...

Significance: This Greek Revival building, erected 1847-1850, is of architectural interest because of its handsome interior and exterior features. The Court House lawn was the scene of an address by Abraham Lin... More

Old Montgomery County Courthouse, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, Montgo...

Significance: This Greek Revival building, erected 1847-1850, is of architectural interest because of its handsome interior and exterior features. The Court House lawn was the scene of an address by Abraham Lin... More

Old Montgomery County Courthouse, Third & Main Streets, Dayton, Montgo...

Significance: This Greek Revival building, erected 1847-1850, is of architectural interest because of its handsome interior and exterior features. The Court House lawn was the scene of an address by Abraham Lin... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Buildings 25 & 24,10-foot & 2...

Significance: The 10-Foot and 20-Foot Wind Tunnel complex houses a variety of specialized testing and support facilities, most notably the tunnels themselves. Research conducted in these facilities contributed... More

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Buildings 25 & 24,10-foot & 2...

Significance: The 10-Foot and 20-Foot Wind Tunnel complex houses a variety of specialized testing and support facilities, most notably the tunnels themselves. Research conducted in these facilities contributed... More

[National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Pump and building befor...

Site History. Landscape: John Charles Olmsted, from 1896. Other: John Henry Patterson was founder of National Cash Register Company. Today: Garden not extant. Title, date, and subject information provided by Sa... More

[Lester, Willie and Paul Henderson, neighbors of Wilbur and Orville Wr...

Title from reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 159. Attributed to Wilbur and/or ... More

Sacred Heart Church, Dayton, Ohio

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "1990" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017990. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Binding department, National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

"WHJ 1287" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042931. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Public library, Dayton, O[hio] - Victorian era public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Court house, Dayton, Ohio - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014895. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Algonquin Hotel, Dayton, O[hio]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Flight 30: machine close to the ground, Wilbur piloting, covering a d...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More