Description: Caption on reverse reads: "The Dayton Public Library. Dayton, O. Montgomery County. See Card # 15 and # 15-C." Library service began in Dayton in 1805 with the Social Library Society of Dayton. The Dayton Library Association was established in 1847, which lasted until 1860, when it merged with the Public School Library, first organized in 1855. At the beginning, it occupied many different sites including: the old United Brethren building on the corner of Main and Fourth (4th) Streets; The Central High School building; the old city building and for a short time, improvised quarters in a building just north of the courthouse. The first building specifically for the Dayton Public Library, built in 1888, was located in Cooper Park, at the corner of Third (3rd) and Patterson, in downtown Dayton. The winning design was submitted by Messrs. Peters & Burns and the in the June of 1885, contracts for construction were let. The fireproof building was in the French Gothic or Romanesque style and built of Dayton limestone, with Marquette red sandstone trimmings. Fully completed and furnished it cost about $110,000. In 1956, the library officially changed its name to the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. A new $2.3 million building was constructed for the Main Library in 1960, adjacent to the old building, opened March 26, 1962, and is still in use today (albeit with renovations done in 1987 and 1998-2000). The old building was demolished in 1962 after having transferred to the new building. The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library name stayed on until June 19, 2002, when it officially changed its name to the Dayton Metro Library. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F13_005_1
Subjects: Public libraries--Ohio; Libraries--Ohio--Dayton--1880-1890; Dayton (Ohio). Public Library; Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library; Demolished buildings
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Colonel George Newcom, one of Dayton's first settlers, constructed this two-story log house in 1796. Newcom engaged Robert Edgar, a millwright, to build "the best house in Dayton." The original house consisted of one room upstairs and one room on the ground floor, with a door facing the river. In 1798, a two-story addition was added south of the original structure, with a new door facing Main Street. George Newcom was a veteran of General Anthony Wayne's campaign against the Indians and led one of three groups of original settlers that headed north from Cincinnati to Dayton in 1796. He and his wife, the former Mary Henderson, chose lot #13 on which to build their new home. In 1800, Mary gave birth to one of the first white children born in Dayton, their daughter Jane. Since the tavern was a large two-story building, it soon became the center of village activity, as well as overnight lodging for travelers. The first court sessions were held in the tavern, and it served as a place for school and church services. During this period George Newcom became a prominent civic leader, serving as Dayton's first innkeeper, and Montgomery County's first sheriff and jailer. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1815, succeeded Benjamin Van Cleve in the office of clerk of the court, and became president of Dayton's first bank. The Newcoms sold the tavern in 1815, and ownership changed several times during the next twenty years. In 1838, Joseph Shaffer purchased the structure at a Sheriff's auction and converted it into a general store. The building remained "Shaffer's Store" for the next 56 years. In 1894, architect Charles Insco Williams started to raze it to make way for an apartment building when removal of the clapboards revealed the original logs. John Cotterill owned the building and offered to donate it to the city, provided it was moved off the property. Acting on the recommendations of the "Log Cabin Committee, " the city approved moving the tavern to Van Cleve Park. John H. Patterson, founder of The National Cash Register Company, paid for the move. The Daughters of the American Revolution raised money by public subscription to have it restored, and the Dayton Historical Society was organized to operate it as a museum. In the 1960s, the Montgomery Historical Society donated the tavern and related collections to Carillon Historical Park. Newcom Tavern made its final move in the fall of 1964. Today, now Dayton's oldest standing building, Newcom Tavern stands in Carillon Historical Park, approximately two miles south of its original site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_008_001
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio; Log-end Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture--Ohio; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Patterson, Robert, 1753-1827; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Dayton Public Museum-Feb. 4, 1937. Group cleaning cases etc." The Dayton Museum of Natural History began in 1893 as a part of the Dayton Public Library and Museum. In 1952, the Dayton Society of Natural History was formed, which assumed responsibility for the collections and transformed them into the Dayton Museum of Natural History. Now known as the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, the current institution resulted in a merging of the Dayton Society of Natural History and Children's Museum Board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F09_010_1
Subjects: Museums--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Montgomery Co., Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 1938. Winter Scene on State Hospital Grounds. Negative loaned by Chas. Jarbo. 'Dayton Becomes Gem City in Reality: A striking vista seen through the evergreens surrounding the sunken gardens at The Dayton State Hospital, with the Hospital's big smokestack in the distance.' Feb. 21st. Herald." Photograph of snow covered evergreen trees with view of the hospital's smokestack in the background. Located on a hill on the southeast side of the city of Dayton, the photograph was taken on The Dayton State Hospital grounds in February of 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_029_001
Subjects: Winter--Ohio--Dayton; Dayton State Hospital (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County, Dayton, Ohio Oct. 27, 1936 River & Sky-line from Art Institute I- 8x10 prints to Col.Nov13,1936 with Brochure of Dayton" This photo was taken from the Dayton Art Institute and looks south across the Great Miami River. Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_016_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Great Miami River (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "John H. Patterson. 1844-1922. Born Dayton, O. A.B. Dartmouth, 1867. President, mgr., and principal owner of the National Cash Register Co. 1884-1922. Industrialist, citizen, educator. Decorated by French government with the Legion of Honor for his "enterprise--and his efforts for the benefit of his employees." This is a portrait photograph of John H. Patterson (1844-1922), the president, manager and owner of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio. Hoping the machines could save him money by reducing accounting errors in his supply business, he purchased the patent rights to the cash register from James Ritty in 1884. Within six months, he reduced his debt and showed a profit. Patterson built the first National Cash Register factory on his family's farm in Dayton in 1888. By the turn of the century, the company had become one of the largest employers in Dayton. Known for his strict training program for salespeople and health and education programs for employees, Patterson was closely involved in the daily lives of many of his workers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_009_1
Subjects: Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922; Industries--Ohio--Dayton; Business and Labor; National Cash Register Company; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The Old Log Cabin, or Newcom's Tavern, Van Cleve Park, Dayton. The O. R. M. C. MARKER read, Newcom Tavern. Dayton's first Tavern and courthouse. In the War of 1812, was quartermaster's headquarters, Col. Robert Patterson commanding. Restored by the D. A. R. for Historical Society Museum." "Colonel George Newcom, one of Dayton's first settlers, constructed this two-story log house in 1796. Newcom engaged Robert Edgar, a millwright, to build "the best house in Dayton." The original house consisted of one room upstairs and one room on the ground floor, with a door facing the river. In 1798, a two-story addition was added south of the original structure, with a new door facing Main Street. Since the tavern was a large two-story building, it soon became the center of village activity, as well as overnight lodging for travelers. The first court sessions were held in the tavern, and it served as a place for school and church services. The Newcoms sold the tavern in 1815, and ownership changed several times during the next twenty years. In 1838, Joseph Shaffer purchased the structure at a Sheriff's auction and converted it into a general store. The building remained "Shaffer's Store" for the next 56 years. In 1894, architect Charles Insco Williams started to raze it to make way for an apartment building when removal of the clapboards revealed the original logs. John Cotterill owned the building and offered to donate it to the city, provided it was moved off the property. Acting on the recommendations of the "Log Cabin Committee, " the city approved moving the tavern to Van Cleve Park. John H. Patterson, founder of The National Cash Register Company, paid for the move. The Daughters of the American Revolution raised money by public subscription to have it restored, and the Dayton Historical Society was organized to operate it as a museum. In the 1960s, the Montgomery Historical Society donated the tavern and related collections to Carillon Historical Park. Newcom Tavern made its final move in the fall of 1964. Today, now Dayton's oldest standing building, Newcom Tavern stands in Carillon Historical Park, approximately two miles south of its original site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_008_1
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio; Log-end Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture--Ohio; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Patterson, Robert, 1753-1827; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Miami River Parkway --Filling and grading Old Mc.Cook Field,Dayton.Ohio." McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and its successor, the United States Army Air Service from 1917-1927. The field was located approximately one mile (1.6 km) north from downtown Dayton, Ohio. Constructed during World War I, it became the location of the Aviation Service's Engineering Division in 1919. Urban growth encroached on the space and larger aircraft being developed overtaxed the field's surface. Ultimately, the field became too small for its purpose. The Army intended to relocate McCook's operations to Langley Field, Virginia, but Dayton's civic leaders did not want to lose this center of innovation and industry. John H. Patterson, President of the National Cash Register Corporation (NCR), began a local campaign to raise money to purchase a tract of land large enough for a new airfield. The land would then be donated to the U.S. Army with the understanding that it would become the permanent home of the Engineering Division. Patterson died in 1922 but his son, Frederick B. Patterson, organized the Dayton Air Service Committee, a coalition of prominent Daytonians and businessmen dedicated to raising the money necessary to purchase land for the Air Service. Their intensive campaign netted $425,000. The Dayton Air Service Committee's offer far exceeded all others, and in August 1924 President Calvin Coolidge accepted Dayton's gift. This facility would later become Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_038_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Airfields
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Art museum at Dayton, Ohio." This is a photograph of a fountain and arched niches alongside the staircase on the exterior of the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_043_001
Subjects: Dayton Art Institute; Arts--Ohio; Art museums--United States--History--20th century; Dayton (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County Dayton Art Institute July 12, 1938 Fountain between the stairways of the Dayton Art Institute. The fountain is commercial, but the crouching figure in the upper basin is the work of noted Dayton sculptor and former teacher of the institute, Seth M Velsey. Photo by Federal Writers' Project, Dayton, Ohio." Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_006_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co.,Dayton,O.,Feb.3,1938 University ofDayton FOR OFFICE FILE ONLY DO NOT REMOVE" St. Mary's Hall and the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the University of Dayton are seen in this photo. The University of Dayton was founded in 1850 as a day school and boarding school for boys called St. Mary’s School for Boys. In 1920, the university took on the name of its city. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_017_001
Subjects: University of Dayton; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Montgomery Co., Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 1938. Winter Scene on The State Hospital Grounds. Neg. Loaned by Chas. Jarbo. 'A winding road, trees glazed with ice and snow, a peaceful calm--a picturesque scene on the State Hospital grounds.' Feb. 27th. Journal." Photograph of snow covered trees along a winding road. Located on a hill southeast of the city of Dayton, the photograph was taken on the grounds of The Dayton State Hospital in February of 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_020_001
Subjects: Winter--Ohio--Dayton; Dayton State Hospital (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)