Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Businesses That Helped Build Sandusky

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  In the historical collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center is a pamphlet produced around 1880 to provide information a...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Edwin A. Sprau, Baseball Enthusiast

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In the 1942 Obituary Notebook in the Archives Research Center of the Sandusky Library is an obituary for Edwin A. Sprau. Mr. Sprau died...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Sandusky Mourns President Garfield

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  President James A. Garfield died on September 19, 1881, after having been shot on July 2, 1881.   B orn in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1831,...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

Jay Bogert, Livery Proprietor

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The publication,  History of Erie County, Ohio , edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, reported that Jay Bogert was the owner and proprietor of the ...
Monday, September 06, 2021

A Love Letter to Dr. Lauderdale

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A letter and envelope once intended for Dr. Edward Lauderdale is now in the historical files of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Cente...
Friday, September 03, 2021

A "Found" Piece of Business History

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Shortly after the June 23, 1924 tornado in Sandusky, Mary Louise Krupp, wife of Charles J. Krupp, found a small book labeled "Autograph...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Starr & Dewitt, Dealer in Boots and Shoes

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The owners and staff of Starr and Dewitt, dealers in boots and shoes are pictured in front of their business at 130 Columbus Avenue in downt...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Christopher Reeve’s Connection to Sandusky

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Most of us remember Christopher Reeve as the not-quite-original movie Superman. But what's more interesting from our perspective is his ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Printers in Sandusky in 1900

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An unidentified print shop, probably early 20th century  Listed in the 1900-1901 Sandusky City Directory are eight businesses under the hea...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

C. L. Derby & Company

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Chauncey Lyman Derby was the youngest of four Derby brothers involved in nineteenth century book publishing. Born in central New York state ...