Dayton Area History

BOOKS

Austin, Charles Mosley. History of Black People In Dayton and Montgomery County 1802 November-1887 July. Dayton, Ohio: C.M. Austin, 1987.

Cichanowicz, Stanley R. "The Kossuth Colony and Jacob I. Moskowitz - An Experiment in the Settlement of Hungarian Immigrants in Dayton, Ohio." Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, 1963. Typed paper.

Clark, Jerry E. The Shawnee. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

Conover, Charlotte Reeve. Dayton, Ohio: An Intimate History. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1932.

Curwen, M.E. "Sketch of the History of Dayton." In Odell's Dayton Directory and Business Advertiser. 1850. Reprint. Dayton, Ohio: Montgomery County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, 1987.

Dayton, Illustrated: Published in Nine Parts. Dayton, Ohio: International Publishing, 1889.

Dodge, J.R. Red Men of the Ohio Valley: An Aboriginal History of the Period Commending A.D. 1795; Embracing Notable Facts and Thrilling Incidents in the Settlement by the Whites of the States of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Springfield, Ohio: Ruralist Publishing Company, 1860.

Doren, Alice M. "Foreigners in Dayton, An Investigation." Dayton, Ohio: Young Women's Christian Association, 1917.

Drury, Rev. A.W. History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County Ohio. Vol 1. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909.

Edging, Richard. "Prehistoric Cultural Overview." In Historic Resources Management Plan for Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio Fiscal Years 1993 through 1997. December 1993.

Edmunds, R. David. The Shawnee Prophet. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Essenpreis, Patricia S. "An Introduction to the Fort Ancient Cultural Complexes of the Middle Ohio Valley." In A History of 17 Years of Excavation and Reconstruction - A Chronicle of 12th Century Human Values and the Built Environment. vol. 1., edited by James M. Heilman, Malina C. Lineas and Christopher A. Turnbow. Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Museum of Natural History, 1988.

Foerste, Aug. F. An Introduction to the Geology of Dayton and Vicinity with Special Reference to the Gravel Ridge Area South of the City, Including Hills and Dales and Moraine Park, Dayton. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, printers, 1915.

Galloway, William Albert. Old Chillicothe: Shawnee and Pioneer History, Conflicts and Romances in the Northwest Territory. Xenia, Ohio: The Buckeye Press, 1934.

Gannon, Loren S. "West Third Street Historic District National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form." 2 September 1987.

Gist, Christopher. Christopher Gist's Journals with Historical, Geographical and Ethnological Notes and Biographies of his Contemporaries. Ed. William M. Darlington. 1893. Reprint. With a introduction and bibliographic notes by Frank Monaghan. New York: Argonaut Press Ltd., 1966; for University Microfilms.

Haller, Stephen E. A "Genesis Map" of Early Dayton and the Miami Valley. Dayton, Ohio: Montgomery County Records Center and Archives, 1994.

Helwig, Norris. Woodland, 150 Years. Ed. by Mary Earl Rogers. Dayton, Ohio: n.p., 1991.

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing A History of the County; Its Townships; Cities; Towns; Schools, Churches, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Montgomery County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc. 1882. Reprint. Evansville, IL: Whipporwill Publications, 1989.

Houser, Howard R, editor. A Sense of Place in Centerville and Washington Township. Centerville, Ohio: Centerville Historical Society, 1977.

Hover, John C. et al, ed. Memoirs of the Miami Valley. Chicago: Robert O. Law Company, 1919.

Insurance Maps of Dayton, Ohio. New York: New York Sanborn-Perris Map Co., June 1887.

Insurance Maps of Dayton, Ohio. 1897. Corrected. New York: New York Sanborn-Perris Map Co., June 1911.

Junior League of Dayton, compiler and editor. Dayton: A History in Photographs. Dayton, Ohio: The Junior League of Dayton, 1976.

Kennedy, Roger G. Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization. New York: The Free Press, 1994.

Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Koleszar, Stephen C. "Wright Brothers Memorial Mound Group National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form." 10 March 1971.

Mitchell, Fred. "An Architectural and Historical Investigation of the Mound-Horace Area. Dayton, Ohio." Submitted to Montgomery County Historical Society and The 2003 Fund Committee by Historic Preservation Associates. Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1993.

Montgomery History Planning Committee, compiler. Montgomery County Ohio 1990. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1990.

Peters, Margaret E. Dayton's African American Heritage. Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Doning Company/Publishers, 1995.

Potter, Martha A. Ohio's Prehistoric Peoples. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society, 1968.

Ronald, Bruce W., and Virginia Ronald. Dayton: The Gem City. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Continental Heritage Press, 1981.

Silverberg, Robert. The Mound Builders. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1970.

Smith, Thomas H. An Ohio Reader: 1750 to the Civil War. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1975.

Steele, Robert Wilbur, and Mary Davies Steele. Early Dayton with Important Facts and Incidents from the Founding of the City of Dayton, Ohio to the Hundredth Anniversary, 1796-1896. Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1902.

Storms, A.D., compiler. The City of Dayton and Vicinity and Their Resources. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Daily News, 1904.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Bond, Beverly W. Jr. "Memoirs of Benjamin Van Cleve." Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 17, nos. 1-2 (1922): 56-58.

ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Dayton Township/Hamilton County General Tax List for 1798. Microfilm edition. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Fitch Family Papers. Hugh A. Whitesell. Dayton, Ohio.

Historic American Buildings Survey Collection. Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Non-NCR History. Intellectual Properties and Historical Services. NCR Corp. Dayton, Ohio.

Record of Births, City of Dayton, Ohio. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Record of Deaths, City of Dayton, Ohio. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Charles F. Sullivan Papers. Montgomery County Historical Society Collection. Main Branch, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

BOOKS

Austin, Charles M. Paul Laurence Dunbar's Roots and Much More. Edited by James B. George. Dayton, Ohio: A Sense of Roots Publication, 1989.

Best, Felton O'Neal. "Crossing the Color Line: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906." Ph.D.diss., The Ohio State University, 1992.

Brawley, Benjamin. Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet of His People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936.

Cooper, J. Cortez. "Paul Laurence Dunbar 'The Poet.'" Master's thesis, The Ohio State University, 1931.

Cunningham, Virginia. Paul Laurence Dunbar and His Song. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969.

Dunbar, Paul. Oak and Ivy. Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1893.

Gentry, Tony. Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

Gerber, David A. Black Ohio and the Color Line 1860-1915. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1976.

Gould, Jean. That Dunbar Boy. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958. Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery & Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Harlan, Louis R., and Raymond W. Smock, eds., The Booker T. Washington Papers. 14 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Haskins, Randall. "Dunbar's Neighborhoods in Dayton, OH." Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio, April 1996.

Hudson, Gossie Harold. "A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar." Ph.D.diss., The Ohio State University, 1970.

Martin, Jan and Gossie H. Hudson, ed. The Paul Laurence Dunbar Reader: A Selection of the Best of Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poetry and Prose Including Writings Never Before Available in Book Form. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975.

Montgomery County Historical Society. "Who We Are. . .Riverdale." Pamphlet.

Record of Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Who Are Now, and Have Been Members of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, from July 1, 1885 to July 1, 1886. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.

Stang, Cathy. "The 1900 Neighborhood of Paul Laurence Dunbar," Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio, August 1997.

Wiggins, Lida Keck. The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Napierville, Illinois: J.L. Nicholas & Co., 1907.

Williams City Directory. Taylor, MI: Williams & Co., 1874-1905.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Arnold, Edward F. "Some Personal Reminiscences of Paul Laurence Dunbar." The Journal of Negro History 17, no. 4 (October 1932): 400-408.

Dayton Daily News. 3 March 1900, 28 June 1909, and 24 April 1926.

Dayton Forum. 5 July 1918 and 30 May 1930.

Dayton Herald. 26 June 1909 and 24 February 1934.

Dayton Journal. 10 and 12 February 1906 and 18 April 1926.

Dunbar, Paul. "On the River." Dayton Herald. 13 July 1888.

____. "Our Martyred Soldiers." Dayton Herald. 2 June 1888.

Howells, W.D. "Life and Letters." Harper's Weekly 40, no. 2062 (27 June 1896): 630.

Luce, W. Ray. "The Paul Laurence Dunbar House. America's First Publicly Owned Afro-American Historic Site." CRM Bulletin 1 (1990): 15-18.

"Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Negro Poet Laureate." The Watchword (6 March 1906): 150-152.

Pearson, Paul M. "Paul Laurence Dunbar." Talent 16 (March 1906): 12-13, 26.

"The Robert Burns of the Negro Race." The Watchword (17 March 1900): 166.

Stronks, James B. "Paul Laurence Dunbar and William Dean Howells." The Ohio Historical Quarterly 67, no. 2 (1958): 95-108.

Turner, Geneva C. "School Names: For Whom Is Your School Named?" The Negro History Bulletin 16, no. 8 (1953): 188.

Varney, Grace Acker. "Mother of a Great Negro Poet: Born in Slavery, Destined to Honor." Parts 1 and 2. The Watchword (1 September 1935): 4-5; (8 September 1935): 4-5.

Wiggins, L.K. "Den of a Literary Lion." The Voice of the Negro 3, no. 1 (January 1906): 50-53.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Amended Bill No. 450. State of Ohio Senate. 23 July 1936.

INTERVIEWS

Dunbar Storytelling Group. Interview by Dayton Stories Project. Tape recording. 13 June 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, Dayton,Ohio.

ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Civil War Pension Records. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C.

Common Pleas Court Records. Montgomery County. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Deed Records. Montgomery County. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Frederick Douglass Papers. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County PublicLibrary. Dayton, Ohio.

Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers. MIC-25. Microfilm edition. Ohio Historical Society Library. Columbus, Ohio.

Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers. MSS-659. Ohio Historical Society Library. Columbus, Ohio.

"Graves Registration Card: Joshua Dunbar." Dayton National Cemetery. Dayton, Ohio.

High School Times (Central High School, Dayton, Ohio.) Main Branch.

Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Historic American Buildings Survey Collection. Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Schomburg Collection. Microfilm edition. The New York Public Library. New York, New York.

The Midget. Main Branch, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Peabody's New National Combination Chronological, Analytical, Historical, and Pictorial Holy Bible. Dayton, Ohio: Alvin Peabody, n.d.

Tax Assessment Records. Montgomery County. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Will Books. Montgomery County. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

Wright Brothers Papers. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Wright Brothers and Aviation

BOOKS

Andrews, Alfred S. The Andrews, Clapp, Stokes, Wright, Van Cleve Genealogies. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Andrews, 1984.

Arnold, H.H. Global Mission. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Aviation Trail, "Development Plan for the Wright Brothers Inner West Enterprise Zone, Draft." March 1982. Revised May 1982.

Bednarek, Janet R. "The Wright Brothers' 1910 Hangar on Huffman Prairie." n.d., United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Bernstein, Mark. Grand Eccentrics. Turning the Century: Dayton and the Inventing of America. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 1996.

Bilstein, Roger E. Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Boesen, Victor. William P. Lear: From High School Dropout to Space Age Inventor. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1974.

Brennan, Joey and Keith Williams. "Hey, I Wonder What the Neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, Where the Wright Brothers Lived Was Like in 1900?" Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio, 25 April 1997.

Brunsman, Charlotte K., and August E. Brunsman. "Friendship Carved in Stone." 1990. Photocopy.

___. Three Wright Brothers & A "Last Man's" Club. Dayton: Privately Printed, 1991.

____. Wright & Wright Printers: The Other Career of Wilbur and Orville. Dayton: Trailside Press, 1989.

Chapman, William R., and Jill K. Hanson. Wright Brothers National Memorial Historic Resource Study. Atlanta: Southeast Field Area, National Park Service, January 1997.

Colburn, Don. "Wright Brothers Hill National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form." Draft. 1 September 1994.

Crouch, Tom. A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

____. The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census. Statistics for the Principal Cities and Metropolitan Districts. Vol. 1 of Census of Manufactures, 1914. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918.

___. Reports of States, with Statistics for Principal Cities. Vol. 9 of 14th Census of the United States Taken in the year 1920, Manufacturers, 1919. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923.

Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Reports for States, with Statistics for Principal Cities. Vol. 9 of 13th Census of the United States Taken in 1910, Manufactures, 1909. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1912.

DuFour, Howard. Charlie Taylor: The Wright Brothers Mechanician. Dayton: Prime Printing, 1997.

The Edison Institute. Dedication of the Wright Brothers Home and Shop in Greenfield Village. Dearborn, MI: The Edison Institute, 1938.

Elliott, Daryl Melvin. "Bishop Milton Wright and the quest for a Christian America." Ph.D. diss. Drew University, 1992.

Fetters, Paul R. Ed. Trials and Triumphs: History of the United Brethren in Christ. Huntington, IN: Church of the Brethren in Christ, Department of Church Services, 1984.

Fisk, Fred C., and Marlin W. Todd. The Wright Brothers From Bicycle to Biplane. Dayton: F.C. Fisk and M.W. Todd, 1993.

Foulois, Benjamin D. From the Wrights to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Major General Benjamin D. Foulois. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.

Freudenthal, Elsbeth E. The Aviation Business: From Kitty Hawk to Wall Street. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1940.

Gaede-Serne-Zofcin Architects, Cleveland, Ohio. "Master Plan Study for the Hoover Block, Dayton, Ohio." Submitted to Aviation Trail, Inc., 1987.

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. A History of Flying. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1954.

____. The Invention of the Aeroplane (1799-1909). New York:Taplinger Publishing Co. Inc., 1965.

____. Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics 1796-1855. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962.

Gollin, Alfred. No Longer An Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Harrison, James P. Mastering the Sky: A History of Aviation from Ancient Times to Present. New York: Sarpedon, 1996.

Haskins, Randall. "Dunbar's Neighborhoods in Dayton, OH." Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio. April 1996.

Hollenbaugh, Bob and John Houser. Aeronca—A Photo History. Destin, FL: Aviation Heritage Books, 1993.

Hosmer, Charles B. Jr. "Preservation - A Historical Perspective." In Cultural Resources Management. ed. by Ronald W. Johnson and Michael G. Schene. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1987.

Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Jakab, Peter L. Visions of A Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention. Washington: Smithsonian Insitution Press, 1990.

Johnson, Mary Ann. A Field Guide to Flight on the Aviation Trail in Dayton Ohio. Dayton, Ohio: Landfall Press, 1986.

____. "The First Ten Years: 1981-1991, A Tenth Anniversary History of Aviation Trail." June 1991.

Kelly, Fred C., ed. Miracle at Kitty Hawk. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.

____. Wright Brothers. 1943. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989.

Koontz, Paul R., and Walter Edwin Rousch. The Bishop's: Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 2 vols. Dayton, Ohio: Otterbein Press, 1950.

Loening, Grover. Takeoff Into Greatness: How American Aviation Grew So Big So Fast. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.

Lowenthal, David. The Past Is A Foreign Country. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Mackworth-Praed, Ben. Aviation: The Pioneer Years. Seacaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1990.

McMahin, John R. The Wright Brothers: Fathers in Flight. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1930.

Miller, Ivonette Wright. Wright Reminiscences. Dayton: The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., 1978.

National Park Service. "Study of Alternatives, Dayton's Aviation Heritage, Ohio." Submitted to The 2003 Fund Committee, April 1991.

Nolan, Patrick B., and John A. Zamonski. The Wright Brothers Collection: A Guide to the Technical, Business and Legal, Genealogical, Photographic, and Other Archives at Wright State University. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977.

O'Bright, Jill York, et al. "Wright Cycle Company and Wright and Wright Printing National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form." 18 January 1990.

Pridmore, Jay and Jim Hurd. The American Bicycle. Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers, 1995.

Renstrom, Arthur G. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright, August 19, 1871. Washington: Library of Congress, 1975.

Robie, Bill. For the Greatest Achievement: A History of the Aero Club of America and the National Aeronautic Association. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Scott, Phil. The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

Slaton, Amy E. "Aeronautical Engineering at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: A Historical Overview." In The Engineering of Flight: Aeronautical Engineering Facilities of Area B, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Washington: National Park Service, 1993.

U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Tri-Services Cultural Resources Management Center. "Historic Resources Management Plan for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Fiscal Years 1993 Through 1997." December 1993.

Walker, Lois E., and Shelby E. Wickam. From Huffman Prairie to the Moon: The History of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Office of History, 2750th Air Base Wing, Air Force Logistics Command, 1986.

Williams' City Directory. Taylor, MI: Williams & Co., 1868-1944.

Wright, Milton. Diaries 1857-1917. Comp. The Wright State University Libraries. Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University, 1999.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aeronautical Systems Center, Public Affairs Division. "A Short History of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, PAM #95-139." October 1995.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

"A Close Tie." NCR World 3, no. 4. (September-October 1970): 11-14.

Abbot, C. G. "The 1914 Test of the Langley Aerodrome." Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 24October 1942).

Bauer, Charles J. "Ed Sines, Pal of the Wrights." Popular Aviation (June 1938): 40, 78.

Brewer, Griffith. "The Life and Work of Wilbur Wright." The Aeronautical Journal 20, no. 79 (July-September 1916): 68-85.

"Building the Original Wright Motor." Slipstream 9, no. 5 (May 1928): 9-11.

"Charles Edward Taylor: The World's First Aviation Mechanic." U.S. Air Services 15, no. 8 (August 1940): 20-22.

Cincinnati Enquirer. 18 December 1903.

Coles, Thomas R. "The 'Wright Boys' as a Schoolmate Knew Them." Out West 32 (January 1910): 36-38.

Crouch, Tom D. "The 1905 Wright Flyer: A Machine of Practical Utility." Timeline (August-September 1985): 24-37.

D'Elia, Tony. "Johnson's Airplanes and Supplies." Electron 29, no. 2 (3 June 1994): 4.

Daily State Gazette (Trenton, New Jersey), 16 May 1874.

"Data Concerning Ohio Air Ports." Slipstream 8, no. 9 (September 1927): 38-42.

"Dayton Boasts of Sixth Air Station." Slipstream 8, no. 9 (September 1927): 17, 33.

Dayton Daily News. 18 December 1903; 6 October 1905; 16 June 1909; 31 May 1912; 18 December 1927; 16 December 1928; 31 December 1933; 9 July 1936; 27-28 October 1936; 11 November 1936; 12 December 1943; 31 January 1948; 6, 10, 17, and 29 February 1948; 15 April 1948; 16 September 1952; 13 February 1963; 14 April 1970; 27 December 1972; 24 January 1974; 16 December 1975; 4 September 1978.

Dayton Herald. 18 December 1903; 21 March 1907; 13 and 15 May 1909; 16-19 June 1909; 30-31 May 1912; 15 July 1937; 22 September 1938; 31 January 1948; 2, 3 and 6 February 1948.

Dayton Journal. 2 January 1896; 19 December 1903; 6-7 September 1906; 31March 1912; 30-31 May 1912; 1-2 June 1912; 20 November 1926; 5 and 12 July 1936; 9 February 1938; 2 February 1948.

Dayton Journal Herald. 20 October 1965; 10 May 1973; and 5 January 1977.

"Dayton Lays Plans for New Airport." Slipstream 8, no. 9 (September 1927): 54.

Dunlap, D. Earl. "The Johnson Twin-60." Slipstream 8, no. 1 (January 1927): 22-24.

Eberhardt, J.C. "The Death of Wilbur Wright." The Aero Club of America Bulletin 1, no. 6 (July 1912): 4-5.

Fisk, Fred C. "The Wright Brothers' Bicycles." The Wheelman, no. 17 (November 1980): 2-14.

Hildebrandt, Captain Alfred. "The Wright Brothers Flying Machine." American Magazine of Aeronautics (January 1908): 13-16.

"Historical Building Moved To New Site." NCR Factory News (September 1949): 2.

Hooven, Frederick J. "The Wright Brothers' Flight-Control System." Scientific American 239, no.5 (November 1978): 166-184.

"How Dayton Had to Campaign to Provide Wright Field." Aviation Progress. 8 October 1927.

"In Honor of the Wrights." Slipstream 8, no. 11 (November 1927): 9-10.

Justus, Graham. "Hawthorn Hill Has A Special Place in World History." NCR Factory News (June 1965): 2-6.

Korns, Dick. "Al Johnson Foster Local Aviation Grown." Business News 6, no. 24 (20 November-3 December 1995): 6, 16.

"Ohio Leads Nation in Aviation." Slipstream 8, no. 9 (September 1927): 45.

"The Proposed Wright Memorial." Aero Club of America Bulletin 1, no. 6 (July 1912): 5.

Root, A.I. "Our Homes." Gleanings In Bee Culture 33, no. 1 (1905): 7, 37-38.

Showers, J. Balmer. "A Century of Progress." Religious Telescope 100, no. 52 (December 1934): 8-13.

Taylor, Charles E. "My Story of the Wright Brothers." Collier's 122, no. 26 (1948): 27, 68, 70.

Wright, Orville. "Orville Wright Tells How Heavier-Than-Air-Flying Machine was born." Aviation Progress. 8 October 1972.

Wright, Orville and Wilbur Wright. "The Wright Brothers Aëroplane." The Century Magazine 75 (September 1908): 641-650.

"The Wright Aeroplane and Its Performances." Scientific American 94, no. 14 (7 April 1906): 291-292.

"The Wright Aeroplane and Its Fabled Performances." Scientific American 94, no. 2 (13 January 1906): 40.

"Wright Hill Dedicated in Dayton." US Air Services 25, no. 9 (1940): 10.

"Wright Memorial Site Criticized." Slipstream 9, no. 1 (January 1928): 7-8.

INTERVIEWS:

Dugan, Don. Interview by author. Tape recording. 8 November 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Hamburger, Elizabeth. Interview by author. Tape recording. 3 July 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Huffman, William P. Interview by Shelby E. Wickam and Virginia L. Julian. 2 December 1977. 88th Wing History Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

Johnson, Mary Ann. Interview by author. Tape recording. 21 February 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Rice, Walter H. Interview by author. Tape recording. 3 March 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Reese, Robert, Sr. Interview by author. Tape recording. 7 December 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Roof, Edward and Eugena Roof. Interview by author. Tape recording. 28 June 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Sharkey, Gerald. Interviews by author. Tape recordings. 16 and 23 February 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Tillson, J. Bradford. Interview by author. Tape recording. 29 February 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Wohlslagel, John. Interviews by author. Tape recording. 9 November and 1 December 1995. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Wright, Susan. Interview by author. Tape recording. 9 May 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

Wright, Wilkinson. Interviews by author. Tape recordings. 11 May 1995 and 5 September 1996. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

The Wrights' Time To Fly: The Family Remembers Huffman Prairie. Prod. and ed. by Mike Priest and Bev Priest. MBC Productions, Dayton, 1985.

ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Air Force Museum Wright Brothers Collection. MS-157. Special Collections and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.

The Annual Club of Ten Dayton Boys, Minute Book. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio. Aviation. Intellectual Properties and Historical Services. NCR Corp. Dayton, Ohio.

Aviation Trail Incorporated Papers. Dayton, Ohio.

Agnes Beck-Katharine Wright Letters. SC-97. Special Collections and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.

Biographical Technical Files. Archives. National Air and Space Museum. Washington, D.C.

Gutzon Borglum Papers. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Brewer, Griffith. "The First Aerodome." Library. Royal Aeronautical Society. London, England.

Civilian Conservation Corps. Record Group 35. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C.

Columbia University Oral History Collection. Part IV. New York Times Oral History Program. Columbia University. New York, New York.

The Evening Item. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Fitch Family Papers. Hugh A. Whitesell. Dayton, Ohio.

Harvey Geyer Collection. Montgomery County Historical Society. Dayton, Ohio.

Katharine Wright Haskell Papers. Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Microfilm edition. University of Missouri at Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri.

History Non-NCR Wright Brothers. Intellectual Properties and Historical Services. NCR Corp. Dayton, Ohio.

High School Times (Central High School, Dayton Ohio.) Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

MacFarland, Marvin W, ed. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute. 2 vols. 1953. Reprint, Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1990.

Marriage Records of Montgomery County. Montgomery County Records Center. Dayton, Ohio.

The Midget. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Dayton, Ohio.

Ivonette Wright Miller Papers. MS-216. Special Collections and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.

National Park Service. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. Brookline, Massachussetts.

Non-NCR History. Intellectual Properties and Historical Services. NCR Corp. Dayton, Ohio.

Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Record Group 111. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C.

Olmstead Associates Papers. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Oral History Project. Wright Brothers Transcripts. Archives. University of Dayton. Dayton, Ohio.

Gerald Sharkey Personal Papers. Dayton, Ohio.

Snap-Shots at Current Events. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Charles Taylor Papers. Institute Archives. California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, California.

"Van Cleve, Wright Cycle Co., Dayton, O." Library. Royal Aeronautical Society. London, England.

West Side News. Main Branch. Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Dayton, Ohio.

Katharine Wright Letters. SC-117. Special Collections and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.

Marion Wright. Wright Family Papers. Dayton, Ohio.

Wright Brothers Collection. Accession 1623. Research Library. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Dearborn, MI.

Wright Brothers Collection. MS-1. Wright State University Special Collections and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.

Wright Brothers Files. Aeronautical Systems Center Office. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Dayton, Ohio.

Wright Brothers Papers. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, DC.

Wright Brothers Research. Carillon Historical Park. Dayton, Ohio.

The Wright Memorial Commission. MS 134. Special Collection and Archives. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.