Haylie Reed, Author at Dayton History

ArtiFACT Friday- December 4, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

Here’s a detail image of this week’s mystery artifact. Do you know what artifact is pictured here and which building you can find it in at Carillon Historical Park? Post your guess on our facebook page, or or e-mail your submission to info@daytonhistory.org with the subject listed as “ArtiFACT Friday,” for a chance to win a FREE Family Membership for a year! For complete contest rules, please click on our Arti-FACT Friday Contest link on our home page. For those of you sleuths, who want a sneak peek at next week’s Mystery at the Museum artifact photo, pick up a FREE copy of the Dayton City Paper next Tuesday!

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ArtiFACT Friday- November 27, 2015

November Mystery at the Museum Solved…

The answers to November’s series of Museum Mysteries are (in weekly order): a Motorola table top radio, the American flag, and a Sugar Camp cabin personnel locker. All of this month’s mystery artifacts, and many others, are on display in the Sugar Camp/WAVES Cabin #22 at Carillon Historical Park! For a sneak peek at next week’s Mystery at the Museum artifact photo, be sure to pick up a FREE copy of the Dayton City Paper next Tuesday!

Week 1 | Motorola Table Top Radio

The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation of Chicago, Illinois was founded in 1928, with only 5 employees, to manufacture battery eliminators. The company quickly developed radios for automobiles, mad car radio receivers for police use, and also radios for use by the general public for entertainment purposes. During World War II, the company developed the Handie-Talkie SCR536 AM portable two-way radio, used by U.S. soldiers on battlefields across the globe. In 1947, the company officially changed its name to Motorola, Inc. and quickly expanded its product line to include cutting-edge technological devices known as television sets. On display in the Sugar Camp/WAVES Cabin #22 at Carillon Historical Park is a Bakelite Motorola radio, which is similar in style to radios the Dayton-stationed WAVES may have listened to while at Sugar Camp.

Week 2 | American Flag

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress officially adopted the United States flag with a resolution stating: “that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” From that point forward, as new states were added to the union, additional stars and stripes were added to the flag until 1818, when it was determined that the flag should revert back to the original thirteen stripes with only new stars being added in order to represent the newest states. The 48-star flag, in use from 1912 to 1959, is the second longest-used U.S. flag in history, behind only the current 50-star version. An original 48-star flag is on display for visitors touring the Sugar Camp/WAVES Cabin #22 at Carillon Historical Park.

Week 3 | Sugar Camp Personnel Locker

Once used to house NCR salesmen during training schools; the group of sixty cabins located at Sugar Camp became the perfect location for housing specialized units during World War II. These specialized units, known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), worked for the military at NCR on a top secret project to build the code breaking machine, the Bombe. These machines, nearly 10 feet wide, 7 feet tall and two feet deep, enabled the U.S. Navy to decode German Naval radio communications. At the height of the program, over 600 WAVES were stationed in Dayton. There were times when as many as 12 women living in a single cabin at Sugar Camp. There would be three women assigned to a single bed: one would work, one would sleep and one would be enjoying free time. The wooden lockers would have been shared by the occupants as well. These lockers can be seen while touring the Sugar Camp/WAVES Cabin #22 at Carillon Historical Park.

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ArtiFACT Friday- November 20, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

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ArtiFACT Friday- November 13, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

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ArtiFACT Friday- October 23, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

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ArtiFACT Friday- October 16, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

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ArtiFACT Friday- October 9, 2015

Mystery at the Museum …

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ArtiFACT Friday- September 25, 2015

September Mystery at the Museum Solved…

The answers to September’s series of Museum Mysteries are (in weekly order): the ‘Burnside 1’ Cast Iron Stove, ‘The Fashion’ Wooden School Desk, and volumes of ‘McGuffey Eclectic Readers’. All of this month’s mystery artifacts, and many others, are on display in the Locust Grove School No. 12 at Carillon Historical Park! For a sneak peek at next week’s Mystery at the Museum artifact photo, be sure to pick up a FREE copy of the Dayton City Paper next Tuesday!

Week 1 | The ‘Burnside 1’ Cast Iron Stove

The cast iron stove was once considered a necessity for every home and building. Used for both heating and cooking purposes, these stoves came in many different shapes and sizes. The first cast iron stove to be manufactured in the United States was made in 1642 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Featured in the Locust Grove School No. 12 at Carillon Historical Park is a cannon stove, also known as a pot belly stove, that was manufactured by the West Virginia Foundry and Stove Company. A stove similar to the Burnside model on display here, which is not original to the building, would have been used to keep the students and instructors of this one-room schoolhouse warm during the winter months.

Week 2 | ‘The Fashion’ Wooden School Desk

When visiting the Locust Grove School No. 12 at Carillon Historical Park, guests are encouraged to step back in time by sitting at one of the many school desks lined in rows down the center of the room. Several of the small wooden desks were manufactured by a local company in Sidney, Ohio. The Sidney School Furniture Company began making the Fashion model school desks in 1881. The company produced a variety of products for use in schools including slate blackboards, school bells, benches and other furniture through 1901. Shortly afterward, the factory closed its doors.

Week 3 | Volumes of ‘McGuffey Eclectic Readers’

=In the history of American education, one of the most well-known series of school books, used throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was the McGuffy Readers. These early textbooks were the creation of William Holmes McGuffey, a man with strong religious convictions and a passion for education. While teaching at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, McGuffey was approached by a Cincinnati publishing firm to write a series of readers for primary school children. Longtime friend, American author and famous abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe had recommended McGuffey for the job. Reflecting the author’s personal beliefs and philosophies, these textbooks promoted standards of morality and societal values, and were among the first textbooks designed to become more challenging with each volume. It has been estimated that nearly 120 million copies of the McGuffy Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960.

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