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FREMONT: 



SANDUSKY COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



This association maintains a collection of articles of historical 

 interest, in a room in the Birchard Library. 



GREENVILLE: 



CARNEGIE LIBRARY. Museum Department. 



Staff. Honorary curator, Charles L. Katzenberger; Curators, 

 George A. Katzenberger, Frazer E. Wilson, and A. C. Robeson; 1 guide, 

 and 1 janitor. 



Anthropology. One case of selected Indian implements, and 

 ethnological collections from the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, North 

 American Indians of to-day, etc. 



Art. A small collection of material chiefly related to either the 

 anthropological or the historical collections. 



Botany. A small collection of dried woods, etc. 



Education. Selected specimens of drawing and basketry from 

 the graded schools and handicraft from the kindergarten are exhibited 

 annuallv. 



Geology. Small collections of minerals and rocks. 



History. Old deeds, manuscripts, books, paintings, household 

 utensils, relics of Indian wars of 1 791-5 and of the civil war, and 

 other material illustrating local history. 



Paleontology. An almost complete unmounted skeleton of 

 Mastodon giganteus. 



Zoology. A small collection. 



Historical Sketch. The museum was established in 1901 under 

 the direction of the public school board. The nucleus of the museum 

 is the Anthony and Charles L. Katzenberger collection; other material 

 has been added by purchase or loaned indefinitely to the museum. The 

 Greenville Historical Society has been instrumental in securing much 

 of the historical and anthropological material. 



Financial Support. Special appropriations from the school 

 board. 



Building. The museum occupies 5000 square feet of floor space 

 for exhibition, and 300 for offices, etc. in the basement of the Carnegie 

 Library, erected in 1901. 



Administration. By a board of curators, responsible to the pub- 

 lic school board. 



