Thursday, December 27, 2007

Sophronia Jefferson, Former Slave

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An article in the November 15, 1924 Sandusky Star Journal gives an account of local resident Sophronia Jefferson. Sophronia was born in Ken...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Letters to Santa Claus

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In the early twentieth century, both of Sandusky's major newspapers (the Register and the Star-Journal ) published children's lett...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Built Upon the Rock

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Sitting on top of bedrock of solid limestone, the city of Sandusky has the largest number of limestone buildings in Ohio . One such building...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sandusky High School Class of 1884

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Through the generous donation of local donors, the Archives Research Center of the Sandusky Library has a complete set of photographs of the...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

New Finding Aids for Old Collections

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I know this is coming a little late (the work was finished in August), but I would like to recognize and publicize some new resources produc...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The Oheb Shalom Cemetery

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The Oheb Shalom Cemetery is located south of the Erie County Fairgrounds, at the intersection of Columbus and Dewitt Avenues, in Perkins Tow...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

German Newspapers in Sandusky

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Some of you may not know that there once was a large, active German community in Sandusky, one large enough to support German-language newsp...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Three Aspiring Entertainers

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Nettie Baumeister Buder, Heenan Elliott, and Helen Fisher are pictured below in front of a stage backdrop from a play in which they were per...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Program Announcement -- Travelogues & Scrapbooks: Records of 19th & Early 20th Century World Travel by Sanduskians

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Today it is relatively easy (for those who can afford it) to buy an airplane ticket and be in another part of the world in a few hours. Bef...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Aline Stem’s “First Book of Essays”

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Before Aline Stem graduated from Sandusky High School in 1862, she kept a notebook of essays, beginning September 14, 1859. Aline was the da...