Henry Freyensee photographs

Collection – Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-0337

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

The Henry Freyensee Negative Collection consists of 324 glass plate negatives (319 4x5 plates and 5 8x10 plates) and 5 film negatives (approximately 1.5 linear ft.), dating from 1897 to 1916. Primarily showing family and lake shipping scenes around the Sandusky, Ohio area, including the family operated tug Grandon and other lake ships, the collection also includes a few photographs from Port Clinton and the Lake Erie Islands.

Dates

Creation: 1897-1916

Extent

1.84 Cubic Feet (4 legal boxes)

Biographical / Historical

Henry Freyensee was born around 1876 in Sandusky, Ohio. His father, Capt. William Freyensee sailed the B.F. Ferris on Lake Erie on the Sandusky-Catawba-Port Clinton route in the mid-1870's and later became master of the R.B. Hayes. Between 1898 to 1918, the period of the bulk of this collection, the family operated the Tug Grandon in a general freight and passenger business around the Lake Erie Islands. Henry Freyensee died in 1964 at the age of 88.

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