Thursday, December 31, 2015

Unpuzzling a Baptismal Record

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Recently we came across this baptismal record from 1885 in an archival box in the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. It looks li...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Portraits of Walter and Edwin Sprau

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Walter Sprau gave this picture of himself to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Sprau, on Christmas Day in 1915, when he was eleven ye...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Christmas Gifts for the 1915 Holiday Season in Sandusky

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By browsing through historical issues of the Sandusky Register , we can determine some of the popular gifts that were advertised to area re...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

New Feature -- Link to Archives Catalog

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If you look very carefully at this page, you might have noticed some new information added to the left side of the page, above the subscript...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Illustrated Lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg

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On Thursday night, December 23, 1886, an illustrated lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg was presented at Biemiller’s Opera House in Sa...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Thirteenth Regiment Band of New York Performed in Sandusky

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The following notice appeared in the December 19, 1890 issue of the Sandusky Register . Fred N. Innes and his 13 th Regiment...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

J.H. Herman Carried the Columbia Grafonola for Christmas, 1919

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In December, 1919, the J.H. Herman store sold the Columbia Grafonola . The grafonola was a type of phonograph which was used to play r...
Friday, December 11, 2015

William Durbin, Former Railroad Superintendent

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William Durbin was born in Carroll County, Maryland in 1813. He studied the art of civil engineering. As a young man he worked as an As...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Former First Church of Christ Scientist

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The church located at 128 East Adams Street, now home to the congregation of the Emmanuel Temple Church, was originally constructed as ...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Dorothy Keefe, Sandusky’s “Globe Trotting” Librarian

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Miss Dorothy Keefe, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Keefe, began working at the Sandusky Library in 1915. She was a graduate of Sa...