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Custom Photo Slates for Dayton, Ohio
Ohio-made keepsakes for the birthplace of aviation.
Handcrafted one at a time in Coshocton, Ohio — and shipped to Dayton, Ohio.
A city that understands service and the people who wait at home
Dayton carries its history in the open. This is where flight began, and it is a city that has never stopped being shaped by the people who serve — the ones who write the manuals, who fly the missions, who repair what nobody else can, and who keep a badge or a uniform on through a whole career. Behind every one of them is a household that moved twice, waited on a lot of Sundays, and kept every photograph.
We make keepsakes for those households, and we make them in Ohio. Every slate is real natural stone, handcrafted one piece at a time in Coshocton — a genuine Ohio small business, a few hours up the road — with your photograph printed into the surface and the chiseled edge left exactly as the stone broke.
An Ohio workshop, shipping to the Miami Valley
Plainly: Albritton's Art™ is one workshop in Coshocton, Ohio, run by hand. We are not a Dayton company and will never claim to be, and there is no storefront with our name on it in the Miami Valley. What we do is make each piece here in Ohio and ship it to your address, wherever around Dayton that is.
Keepsakes that are especially meaningful in a city like this are tributes to service, and we treat them that way. A portrait in dress uniform with branch, rank, and years of service underneath. A retirement piece for twenty-eight years. A promotion or an academy graduation. Appreciation pieces for the police, fire, and EMS crews who look after the valley. And at the hardest end of it, end-of-watch pieces and memorials, made slowly and with care, because a family that gave that much should never have anything rushed. Alongside all of it: family keepsakes and reunions, weddings and anniversaries, graduations, and pet keepsakes for the dog who moved with the family every single time.
Handcrafted in Coshocton, Ohio · shipped to Dayton, Ohio. Every slate is made by hand, one at a time, in a single workshop — there is no second location and no storefront in Dayton.
Keepsakes That Carry Meaning In The Miami Valley
Keepsakes that are especially meaningful for Dayton-area families include:
- ✦Military retirement and service tributes — dress uniform, branch, rank, and years of service
- ✦Promotions, reenlistments, commissioning, and academy graduations
- ✦Aviation and engineering career tributes — a long career in the work this city is known for
- ✦First responder appreciation — police, fire, and EMS retirements, promotions, and awards
- ✦End-of-watch and memorial tributes, made with particular care
- ✦Family keepsakes and reunions — the whole crew, or four generations at once
- ✦Weddings and anniversaries, including milestone years from a photograph taken decades ago
- ✦Graduations from Dayton-area high schools, universities, and technical programs
- ✦Pet keepsakes — the dog who made every one of those moves with the family
Real finished pieces
What yours will look like
Every one of these is a real slate we made, photographed on its display stand. The stone is split from nature, so no two edges are ever the same.
How it works
Four simple steps, one lasting keepsake.
Send us your photo
Text or email the digital photo you want on slate — the original file from your camera or gallery, if you can find it. Higher resolution prints better, but send what you have and we will tell you honestly how it will look on the stone.
We prepare the design — you approve it first
We lay out the photo, and any names, dates, or words you would like with it. We show it to you before anything is made. Nothing is printed until you say it is right.
Printed on stone, hand-finished in Coshocton
Once you approve it, the image is printed onto natural slate and hand-finished in our Coshocton, Ohio workshop. Because the stone is split from nature, every chiseled edge is a little different — no two pieces are alike.
Shipped to your door
Your finished keepsake is boxed with its display stand and sent to your address, ready to set out the moment you open it. Nothing to frame, nothing to assemble.
Shipping to Dayton
Delivered to your door, Ohio
Shipping to Dayton: Free standard shipping on your first order over $150, through October 31. After that, $10 flat.
Sales tax is calculated automatically at checkout for your location. Sizes run $15 to $55.
Standard shipping is $10 flat nationwide. $25 expedited shipping is always charged. Free standard shipping is available on your first order over $150 through October 31.
Where to start
The collections that fit Dayton best
A photo from Dayton, kept in stone.
For the people who gave their careers to service, and for the families who moved with them, send us the photograph and the years and we will put them on stone. Sizes run $15 to $55, handcrafted in Coshocton, Ohio, and shipped to your door in Dayton.
Handmade in Coshocton, Ohio · Sizes $15–$55 · Shipping is $10 flat nationwide standard, or $25 expedited · Sales tax is calculated automatically at checkout for your location
Also serving
We ship everywhere in the United States — these are simply the places people have asked about most. Wherever you are, your keepsake is made the same careful way.