Monday, June 29, 2020

“Along the Wharves” in Sandusky

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“Along the Wharves” was the title of a popular column that appeared in the Sandusky Star and the Sandusky Morning Star newspapers in 1898 ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Kolb & Osberghaus, Inventive Business Owners

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From about 1869 to 1880, Adam Kolb and Charles Osberghaus worked as machinists in Sandusky. In the earlier years, the firm was named A.K...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Leo A. Sacksteder Sold “Shoes that are Different”

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Mrs. Norman Steinert donated the buttonhook pictured above to the historical collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Cente...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Michel Brothers Cooperage

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In 1880, August Michel began his career as a cooper in Sandusky, Ohio. Soon after he opened his own business, his brother Robert joined t...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Kelley’s New Life Medicine

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Not the section of the advertisement in German. Many German immigrants lived in Sandusky during the late 19th century. In a program fro...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

George M. Rinkleff

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George M. Rinkleff was born in June of 1864 in Sandusky , Ohio to Frank and Caroline (Molter) Rinkleff.   In 1885 he married Louise T...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Miss Mary McCann, Longtime Head Librarian of Sandusky Library

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Mary McCann was a 1923 graduate of Sandusky High School, and served as the secretary-treasurer of her class. A verse next to her senior p...
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Sunday, June 07, 2020

Norma Zistel’s Diploma

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Miss Norma Zistel graduated from Sandusky High School on June 19, 1902.  At that time the superintendent of Sandusky City Schools was H....
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Picture Postcards by Louis Pesha

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Louis Pesha was a photographer who was well known for his photographs of the Great Lakes area in the early twentieth century. The Pesha Po...
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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Hector Jennings, a Man of Service

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Hector Jennings was born in Elmira, New York, in 1804, and died in Sandusky, Ohio on January 27, 1900. He was married to Delina Cummings in...