By: E&P Staff The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News announced Tuesday that it is giving its entire archive of historical newspapers and photographs to the Wright State University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives.
"We are thrilled to have Wright State University become the steward of our archive," said Dayton Daily News Editor Kevin Riley. "The Dayton Daily News and the former Journal Herald have been the eyes and ears of the community documenting life in the Dayton region for more than a century."
The archive will add another 13,500 cubic feet, substantially increasing the 9,000 cubic feet of material now preserved for access by scholars and the public.
Under the agreement between the newspaper and the university, Daily News archives eventually will be available to the public and to researchers. At the newspaper, the public cannot access the physical archive.
Wright already houses manuscript papers and letters from Daily News founder James M. Cox, a three-term governor of Ohio.
"Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is poised and well equipped to undertake the preservation of this important local history resource," WSU President David R. Hopkins said in a statement. "The combined acts of preservation and planned availability of this immense, incredibly detailed historical record further binds our university to this community by allowing us to preserve for and share this wealth of memory with greater Dayton."
The collection includes photographs, news clippings and subject files generated by the Daily News and Journal Herald since their inception in 1898. The Journal Herald folded in 1986.
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