MS-098

MS-098

 

PIQUA POLICE DEPARTMENT PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Piqua Police Department Photograph Collection was accessioned into the Flesh Public Library’s Archives in October 2003 and was processed in November 2003.  The donor was Police Chief Phillip Potter of the Piqua Police Department.  The collection consists of forty-five files in one box.  There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.  Most photographs date from mid-1950 to the late 1970’s.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The Piqua Police Department Photograph Collection is divided into five series:

 

SERIES I – PEOPLE

 

SERIES II – BUSINESSES

 

SERIES III – STREETS, PUBLIC WORKS

 

SERIES IV – ACCIDENTS AND NATURAL DISASTERS

 

SERIES V – MISCELLANEOUS

 

CONTAINER LIST

 

SERIES I:  PEOPLE

 

BOX 1

 

File

            1          Bales, Nellie (Mrs. James)

            2          Bausman, Dr. Joseph

            3          Brown, Charles

            4          Gurklies, George m.

            5          Lambert, Frederick C.

            6          Lane, Howard

            7          Springer, Norman

            8          Young, Berry

            9          Young, Leon R.

 

SERIES II – BUSINESSES

 

BOX 1

 

File

            10        Animal Hospital

            11        Bing’s Place

            12        Buckeye Mart

            13        DP & L – Dayton Power & Light

            14        Dew Drop Inn

            15        Ernie’s

            16        Fletcher’s Used Cars

            17        G. C. Murphy Company

            18        Hazel Marie Apartments

            19        Household Finance Corp.

            20        Kiefer’s Pharmacy

            21        Paul’s Bar

            22        Piqua Granite

            23        Pizza Hut

BOX 1

 

File

            24        Piqua Party Supply

            25        Piqua Pizza Supply

            26        Revco

 

SERIES III:  STREETS, PUBLIC WORKS

 

BOX 1

 

File

            27        Adams and Garnsey Streets – sewer

            28        Cemetery Flooding 1

            29        Cemetery Flooding 2

            30        Miami County Maps

            31        Mote Park ground breaking

            32        Sewage Disposal Plant

            33        Sewage Disposal Plant – laying interceptor line

            34        Sewage Treatment Plant – new

            35        Sewage Treatment Plant

            36        Shawnee Ditch

            37        Sidewalk Repair

            38        Victory Heights Map

 

SERIES IV:  ACCIDENTS, NATURAL DISASTERS

 

BOX 1

 

File

            39        Automobile accidents – various

            40        Break-ins

            41        Pennsylvania Train Wreck

            42        Roof Top get-aways

            43        Tornado north of Piqua

            44        Train wreck – 271 E. Main Street

 

SERIES V: MISCELLANEOUS

 

BOX 1

 

File

            45        Miscellaneous