August 26 is National Dog Day

Captain Payne, dog of Judge Jay Payne

Dogs have been a trusted human companion for centuries, and this fact is certainly reflected in the collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. We have dozens of photographs of dogs with friends and family. Here are a few, in commemoration of National Dog Day.

  We don't know the identity of this woman or her dog, but we can perceive the loyalty between them.

Emma Marie Yeager is with her dog in Huron Township, around 1907.

This good dog is at Green and Pascoe Grocers on Huron Street

A dog and his boys, Errol, Otto, and Elmer Matern.

The Photographer Ernst Niebergall with his dog and cat.

It seems that a photographer liked to include his dog with the baseball teams he photographed. Here are a few examples.

A very good dog!

Baseball Dog!

Here he is, Baseball Dog!

We don't know anything certain about him, but we think he was the photographer's dog. He seems to have played multiple positions; he's a catcher for the team above.

And he was a multi-sport dog; here he is with the Huron Parks basketball team:

Holzaepfel Kodaks Baseball Team

In the 1910s, the Holzaepfel store sponsored a baseball team known as the Kodaks. When you look closely at the players, the name Kodaks is printed on the center of their uniform tops, and the large H on their uniform stands for Holzaepfel.

In another team picture of the Holzaepfel Kodaks, the name of the teams appears in cursive writing on the players’ uniforms.

 The Holzaepfel Brothers store was an official processor of pictures taken with Kodak film.

From 1908 through the 1950s, the Holzaepfel Brothers store was at 157 Columbus Avenue. In the early years, the store was listed as a business that sold novelties, but by the 1920s the store was known for selling sporting goods, and of course for processing Kodak film. Though you cannot read the name Holzaepfel Brothers, the business was in the building where the words Sporting Goods appear, on the west side of Columbus Avenue in this picture taken in 1955.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the Holzaepfel Brothers store was at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Market Street. Many area athletes bought their letter sweaters at the Holzaepfel Brothers store.