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Pipe Creek Bridge at Oakland Cemetery
Now in the historical collections of the Follett House Museum, this iron plaque once marked the old bridge over Pipe Creek, just north of the residence at Oakland Cemetery.The Erie County Commissioners...
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Display from a Career Day at Sandusky City Schools
The undated photograph above was given to the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center by the Board of Education of Sandusky City Schools. We do not know the exact location or date of the event, but...
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Clarabelle Cayhoe’s Memory Book
Scrapbooking is now a billion dollar a year business, but it has been done in a variety of forms for centuries. Throughout history people have kept scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, funeral cards,...
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The Reminiscences of Herman and Hedwig Zistel
In Archival Box G-14, folder 14 at the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center is a wonderful piece of local history. The complete title reads: The Reminiscences of Herman Zistel: Memories of a...
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Minna Von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatengluck, by G. A. Lessing
The German-language book, Minna Von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatengluck, by G. E. Lessing, was used as a textbook of German language and literature in the Sandusky City Schools in the first part of the...
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The Enterprising Housekeeper
The 1897 edition of The Enterprising Housekeeper, by Helen Louise Johnson, was published by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The 80 page booklet featured recipes for...
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Professor Ferdinand Puehringer, Conductor and Composer
Ferdinand Puehringer led aband at Cedar Point in the 1880s. He is pictured below with several band members, including Fred Bauman, Maxwell Godfrey, J. Bolton, Ed Pelding, M. McAdams, Joseph Bock, and...
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Kriss Auto Bus
In the 1920s and 1930s, Randall F. Kriss ran a trucking and moving business. The vehicle pictured above is a Kriss Auto Bus that was built by J.A.Loeffler. Mr. Kriss’s early advertisements stated that...
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William H. Wilson, Former Mayor of Sandusky
William H. Wilson came to Sandusky in the early 1860s, from Seneca County, Ohio. After having worked in the stone business and the lumber industry in Sandusky, he worked for several years as a...
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Wichman & Sons grocery
Beginning in 1890, F. Wichman and sons operated a grocery store at the southeast corner of Washington and Shelby Streets for many years. An advertisement in the 1890-1891 Sandusky City Directory...
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The Bijou Restaurant after a Snowstorm
A large group of individuals are pictured above in front of the Bijou Restaurant on West Water Street, next to the West House Hotel (where the back of the State Theatre is today) in downtown Sandusky...
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Judge Moses H. Thompson, World War II Hero
From the 1940 Sandusky High School yearbookMoses H. Thompson was the son of Moses C. Thompson and the former Marian Martin. During his time at SanduskyHigh School, Moses H. Thompson participated in...
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August Guenther, Wholesale Dealer in Fine Whiskies
According to History of Erie County, Ohio, edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich (Mason and Co., 1889), August Guenther was born in Westphalia, Prussia in 1848 to Mr. and Mrs. John Guenther. He emigrated to the...
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August Wilhelm’s Invitation to The White House in 1914
In 1914 Lieutenant and Mrs. August Wilhelm received an invitation to a reception to be held at the White House on February 24, when Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States. The Army Navy...
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Poem by Confederate Lieutenant S. Boyer Davis, imprisoned at Johnson's Island
According to the book Rebels on Lake Erie, by Charles E. Frohman, Samuel Boyer Davis was sentenced, as a spy, to be executed by hanging on February 17, 1865, at Johnson’s Island Prison. According to a...
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Sandusky’s Valentine was a Sleet Storm in 1909
Between February 14 and 16, 1909 a severe ice and sleet storm coated most of central and northern Ohio. Local weather official E.E. Nimmo reported that the track of the storm was very narrow, heading...
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Frederick W. Cogswell, Prosecuting Attorney for Erie County
Frederick Whittlesey Cogswell was the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. William Cogswell, born in Connecticut in 1823. He graduated from Yale University in 1849. After briefly studying law in Connecticut,...
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Dr. Jeanne Spurlock, a Leader in Psychiatric Medicine and Social Activism
Born in Sandusky in 1921, the first child of Frank and Glodena Spurlock, Jeanne Spurlock spent her early childhood in Sandusky before moving to the Detroit area, where she attended high school. When...
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Civil War Letter -- Black and White Fighting for Freedom
In the Sandusky Library's collections is a letter from a United States soldier during the Civil War to an acquaintance in his hometown of Huron, Ohio. The author, George Haskin (sometimes identified...
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Harry Dane, Chief Clerk at Erie County Probate Court
Harry Dane was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1871 to George W. Dane and his wife, the former Maria Robinson Blanchard. In August of 1900 an article in the Sandusky Star told of Harry Dane’s bravery in...
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