Glimpses Of Our Past – part n

I’ve lost track!

Here are some pics we borrowed from Reliant Energy (thanks to plant engineering supervisor Bill Mann for digging these out for us).

The entire construction process of the original CEI plant from 1925-1928 was well documented, with hundreds of photographs in the collection.  Here are just five:

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Beck Farm, Lake Road, c.1900.  Courtesy Paul Beck.

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Anyone recognize anyone in this photo?

Lake School 1921. Photo Courtesy of Paul Beck.

Two More Days to Picture You Reading!

We’ve got a new set of contest photos (real cute ones!) posted on our flickr page.  The deadline for our contest is this Friday, August 15, and we’d love to have more entries!

Here are the contest rules.  Show us how creative a reader you are.

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You may know this today as the John Christ Winery. Date = early 1900s. Photo courtesy Vicki George.

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Hello.

As you may, or may not be aware, the Library is working with the Avon Lake Historical Society to collect old photos.  You’d be surprised how few we actually have.  We want to add any donated photos to our collection, and we intend to scan them, as well as borrowed photos, to keep as digital objects.

Once we have collected a critical mass of pictures, of enough different subjects of interest, we intend to publish them in a book through Arcadia Publishing, who have a track record in this field.

If you have original photos (not news clippings, photocopies, pictures of pictures), postcards, line art that depicts people, places, events, buildings, streets, etc. of Avon Lake, we are interested.  Contact me (Gerry).  We’ll take care of them forever if you donate them, and if you loan them to us (and give us permission to do so), we will credit you and have the pictures scanned to be available for the book and for use and study.  Spread the word to those who may not read this!

As often as possible, I will post some of the photos we’ve received here at our blog.  We invite your comments, feedback and questions. Post them here or email me gvogel ( At) avonlake.lib.oh.us.

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