Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Rosemary Schultz Riccardi, aka Xavora Pove

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Rosemary Schultz became a talented pianist at a very young age. She was the daughter of Sandusky residents Frank and Mary Schultz. Her mothe...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Morris Platte: Baseball Star, Soldier in War, Victim of Influenza

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  On the left of this photograph of the Shamrocks baseball team is Morris "Baldy" Platte, star pitcher for the 1914 Sandusky city ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

The Spirit of the Times

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In the archives of the Sandusky Library is a bound volume of a newspaper called the Spirit of the Times. It was published in Batavia, New Yo...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Esther Rose Miller, Educator and World Traveler

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  Around 1912, Willard A. Bishop took this picture of Robert and Esther Rose Miller, who were the children of former city commissioner Charl...
Monday, March 25, 2024

A Visit from Sandusky's First Shopkeeper

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  On April 10, 1861, a special visitor checked into the West House hotel in downtown Sandusky; he was special enough that the desk clerk wro...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Doctors Edwin Gillard, Sr. and Jr.

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The pencil sketch pictured above was done by Edwin Eugene Gillard in 1889 at around age 16, when he was a student in the Sandusky Public Sch...
Friday, March 08, 2024

The Only Legal Execution in Sandusky

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On a day in May 1840, the peaceful life in Sandusky was shattered by an unprovoked, unmotivated murder in the heart of downtown. Four months...
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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Mary Schott's Autograph Album

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The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center has in its collections an autograph book owned by Sandusky resident Mary Schott, with autograp...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Thomas R. McGeachie

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The photograph above, taken by W.A. Bishop, appeared on page 21 of the 1903 publication, What: Souvenir of Sandusky, Ohio and the Islands of...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Valentines Given to Ralph Spahn

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Ralph Spahn was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1891. He was the son of Fred Spahn and his wife, the former Philipine Hinkey. In the historical co...