Description: Ohio National Guardsmen frisking suspects during riot, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00624
Subjects: Ohio National Guard; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Montgomery County, Dayton Ohio. Stone bridge on community golf course. Hills & Dales Park - August 5, 1936". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_034_1
Subjects: Golf courses--History; Bridges 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: Original description reads: "Lantern Parade, Riverview Park, July 17, 1936. Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_017_001
Subjects: Parades--Ohio--Dayton; Parks--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Squad of Ohio National Guardsmen in formation during riot, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00622
Subjects: Ohio National Guard; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Paul Laurence Dunbar and a man identified as Mr. Whack at the home of Major Pond, August 1, 1896. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05261
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; African American poets; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Division of Professional and Service Projects of the WPA undertook a city-by-city study of obstructions to vehicle and pedestrian traffic to identify dangerous features such as "columns, raised streetcar loading zones, street offsets and dead ends, signals and signs in the roadway, etc." Reverse reads: "Traffic Survey, Dayton, Ohio. May 15, 1937" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_027_1
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio); Traffic surveys
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Lantern Parade, Riverview Park, July 17, 1936. Phyllis McNeal second place winner. Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_011_001
Subjects: Parades--Ohio--Dayton; Parks--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Lantern Parade, Riverview Park, July 17, 1936. Linden Center Group. Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_016_001
Subjects: Parades--Ohio--Dayton; Parks--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a view of damage on Third Street in Dayton, Ohio, after flooding, March 25, 1913. Heavy rains during Easter week in March 1913 caused flooding across Ohio. Businesses and railroads suffered more than $300 million dollars of damage, over 20,000 homes were destroyed and 428 Ohioans were killed. The most damage occurred in the Miami Valley area, particularly the city of Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02622
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Dayton; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The original description reads: "This is the East bank of the Canal, West of the NCR buildings, number 8 and 9 taken April 5, 1904". In 1884, John Henry Patterson bought out his fellow investors in the National Manufacturing Company and formed the National Cash Register Company, the predecessor of NCR Corporation. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this company made cash registers. In 1906, the company manufactured the first electric cash register. This photo shows the state of the Miami and Erie canal in Dayton in the early 1900s. The Miami and Erie Canal connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati and Lake Erie in Toledo and was completed in 1845. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F05_012
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Canals--Ohio--Dayton; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio), Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Montgomery County, Dayton, Ohio. Bridge on East Third Street east of Smithville Road." In 1796, Israel Ludlow surveyed and platted the town of Dayton along the Great Miami River near the mouth of the Mad River in what is now southwest Ohio. When Ohio became a state in 1803, Dayton became the seat of Montgomery County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F17_007_001
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History.; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Bridges Ohio; Roads
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)