Saturday, August 26, 2023

Decatur Street in 1929

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Looking north from  Madison Street In 1929, an unidentified photographer took pictures of Decatur Street , between Madison and Jefferson Str...
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Monday, August 21, 2023

Merlin Wolcott, Library Director in Several Ohio Libraries

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Merlin Wolcott in the 1950 BGSU Key Merlin Wolcott was a son of Melvin and Adelia Wolcott. He and his twin sister Merriam Wolcott Washburn w...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Artist John Opie's Painting of a Lyman Boat

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  In the historical collections of the Sandusky Library and the Follett House Museum is a painting of a Lyman boat, titled Lyman Islander...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Gilbert Harris, Dry Goods Merchant

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Gilbert E. Harris was born in  Sandusky  in 1848, to Gilbert Harris, and his wife, the former Almira Belknap. The elder Mr. Harris died in 1...
Monday, August 07, 2023

The Rittman Family of Put-in-Bay and Sandusky

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This picture of Lucy, George and Mamie Rittman was taken at the Pascoe studio in Sandusky, Ohio in the late 1880s. The parents of these chil...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Postcards from Lakeside

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In the Neighboring Communities collection at the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center are several postcards that feature Lakeside, Ohi...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Benjamin E. Deeley, Civil War Veteran

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Benjamin E. Deeley was born in Sandusky on August 31, 1841, to Edmond and Dora Kinney Deeley. Benjamin worked with his father in the local f...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Nearly All of the Loeffler Family Died in the 1849 Cholera

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St. Joseph's Cemetery, Sandusky According to the book, Sandusky Then and Now , in the course of a few days, John Loeffler, his wife Cath...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The Cowell Family of Castalia

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For many years Mr. and Mrs. Alvin T. Cowell resided in a home on South Washington Street in Castalia, approximately where the Castalia Branc...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Admiral Byrd In Sandusky

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On December 12, 1930, The famous explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd spoke to a crowd of 1200 at Sandusky Junior High School, under the a...