The library's historical collections contain photographs of young ladies from Sandusky visiting South Bass Island in 1919 and
1920. Pictured below are Ruth Beach, Helen Rheinegger and Verna Bornhauser, who
were all in their late teens at the time.
The young ladies also visited Hotel Victory during
their visit in 1919. They posed for a snapshot on the ladder of
the (apparently empty) hotel swimming pool. Sadly, the Hotel Victory was destroyed
by fire on August 14, 1919.
On May 22, 1920, Verna Bornhauser and Dorothy Sturm posed
on the barrel of a cannon in the park at Put-in-Bay.
This picture was taken on the road to a visit to the
state fish hatcheries:
Residents of Sandusky were fortunate to have easy
access to steamboat transportation to the Lake Erie Islands. The Frank Kirby was just one
of the steamers that ferried passengers to Put-in-Bay in 1919 and 1920.
