Love this site and all the great memories. - rfk61
wow!!! talk about a flood of memories as I read all these posts... - dfields
What a great site..So many memories of so many places and things. - DebCB

Dear Friends,

As you know, Dayton History Books Online is a 501(c)3 - EIN (Tax ID) 270311836). This means that you contributions to this site are tax deductible.

DHBO has already become much more than just a place to research books and booklets on Dayton’s great history. With your help we hope to expand even more!

What a wonderful year it’s been! When we asked for contributions last year we promised that they would be put to good use. And we feel we’ve more than kept that promise! DHBO has grown enormously, adding a number of features to the site including:

100+ Roz Young articles

600+ pages of articles written by Charles F. Sullivan, who was born in Dayton in 1866

The “Our Own Hall of Fame” series from the 1960s on important people from the area

1,160+ photographs of Dayton from 1900 to the present, many of which are from the 1950s

A search engine that includes DHBO’s blogs and photographs

A number of historical videos that can be watched online

All this, on top of maintaining the 700+ books, booklets and articles online; the now famous DAYTON MEMORIES blog; videos… all while staying up with the latest technology to make sure the 2.6 million+ views DHBO received over the past year could continue without interruption.

What does 2012-2013 hold for DHBO?

During the following year DHBO will add:

More articles

More rare books

More photographs

            More historical videos

            Plus - a special section to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1913, including pictures and 60+ articles, books, booklets and personal stories - all availble without charge!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

I look forward to working with you to make this site a better place to learn, share memories, meet new friends or rediscover old ones, and show everyone that history is NOT boring by any means!

Thank you for your continuing support!

Curt Dalton
President of Dayton History Books Online, Inc.

Please help keep Dayton History Books Online on the Internet. Why?

Dayton History Books Online

used for educational purposes by students, teachers and researchers
is free
ranks in top three at Google in search results (out of nearly two million sites) on key words Dayton history
has over 15,000 pages of printed text from over 600 sources
collects no ‘cookies’
averages nearly 3,000 page views per day
no links to adult-related or sexually explicit sites
publishes no pop-up or pop-under ads
is more than 99% content, with no ads

Site Philosophy and Approach

Our hope is to continue to build an encyclopedia of the history of Dayton and the Miami Valley area, including books, booklets, photographs, interviews and much more.

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Please contact us at cdalton@woh.rr.com if you have any questions. With your help, we can make books and other materials about Dayton available to children and the general public in a format that can easily be read and searched, for use in homework and personal projects. It is our hope to create online the most complete collection of Dayton local histories possible.