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

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Dear friends,
As most of you know, each year around this time we ask our friends who visit Dayton History Books Online for help to keep us online. DHBO must now partly depend on donations. DHBO has now reached the point where I had to become a non-profit organization, which now makes us a public charity. I have also filed for 501c3 status which, if granted, would make donations tax deductible.

Since last August DHBO has added 91 books, booklets and articles to the site, as well as a number of photographs, videos, postcards and matchbook covers. Also included is the “Dayton Speaks” series of over 50 oral histories with stories that cover over 75 years of memories of the Gem City. In July 2009, DHBO saw a record number of visitors to the site, with an average of 3,770 hits a day, a jump of over 1,500 more than the year before!

As you know, Dayton History Books Online 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!

Future enhancements planned for the DHBO’s website include:

More photographs of Dayton, including a series from the 1950s
More really cool Postcards
Videos of our history and community
More articles by Roz Young
More community events, like our meetings at Parkmoor
More books and booklets about Dayton
More Oral histories

Equipment to scan, software to convert the scans to text, use of a special copier to copy fragile books carefully so that they are not damaged by handling, a search engine to index the text, webhosting and internet service to create the site --you can see how expenses can mount up.

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 five at Google in search results (out of nearly two million sites) on key words Dayton history
has over 13,000 pages of printed text from over 350 sources
collects no ‘cookies’
averages over 3,700 page views per day in July 2009
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.