Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Fall of the Commercial Banking and Trust Company

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In late February and early March of 1933, the country stood at the edge of a precipice of a national crisis. President Herbert Hoover was i...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Local History Multimedia Presentations on the Library's Website

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You may not have noticed another feature the Sandusky Library offers for presenting local history. On the library's website , we have a ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Mrs. Eunice Brown Dewitt on the Home Front in the Great War

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Eunice Ann Brown was born in Danbury Township in 1832 to Loderick Brown and Margaret Kelly Brown. Loderick Brown was the Keeper of the Marbl...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Temperance Activities in Early Sandusky

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According to an early Western Reserve Historical Society Tract (in 1888), the first temperance society in Huron County was organized by F. ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

New Collection of Twentieth-Century Newspapers on Microfilm

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Thanks to a generous contribution from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center , subsidized by the generousity of the Sidney Frohman Fou...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

The Grand Cosmorama of 1891

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Before Mrs. Jay O. Moss was successful in her appeal to Andrew Carnegie for a donation of $50,000 for the purpose of the building a public l...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Mystery Image: Washington Park as it Never Was

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We recently received a donation of a drawing of Washington Park from an out-of-town collector who has never been in Sandusky. She thought i...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Program Announcement: Ohio's Presidents (Brown Bag Series)

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The subject of our next program in the brown bag lunch series is Ohio's Presidents . Bring your lunch and come to the Library Program R...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Winter Races on Central Avenue

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An earlier blog entry reported on horse racing at the original Erie County Fairgrounds , located at what is now Cable Park in Sandusky. But ...
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A Scene on Decatur Street in 1899

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The photograph above, taken about 1899, is from the Business Collection of the Archives Research Center of the Sandusky Library. Notes on th...