Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of Mary Bair Bowman as a young child.

She was the daughter of Frank Bowman, a long-time Woodstock merchant. She grew up to be a teacher.

Photograph of Mary Bair Bowman as a child.

She was the daughter of Frank Bowman, a long-time Woodstock Merchant. She went on to become a teacher.

Portrait photograph of Charles Virgil Shoemaker who lived in Woodstock.

Born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, his parents were Herbert and Matilda Shoemaker.

C.V. Shoemaker is best remembered for his contributions as a Superintendent of…

Portrait photograph of Charles Virgil Shoemaker who lived in Woodstock.

Born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, his parents were Herbert and Matilda Shoemaker.

C.V. Shoemaker is best remembered for his contributions as a Superintendent of…

Photograph Elizabeth "Bessie" Gwinn.

Elizabeth was an instructor at Massanutten Academy for the 1913-1914 school year. Her nickname was "Bessie" and she was from Monterey, Virginia.

Portrait photograph of Elizabeth "Bessie" Gwinn.

Elizabeth was an instructor at Massanutten Academy for the 1913-1914 school year. Her nickname was "Bessie" and she was from Monterey, Virginia.

Photograph of Clyde O. Gibson

Gibson was an instructor for Massanutten Academy during the 1913-1914 school year.

This photograph appears in the school's 1913-1914 catalog "Massanutten Academy Views."

Group of unidentified students posed outdoors.

Their unidentified school building is behind them.

Several adults are also pictured and were probably teachers.

Group of unidentified people, probably students and teachers, posed in front of an unidentified building, probably a school.

Group of unidentified students posed in front of a building, probably their school.

An unidentified adult woman and man are also pictured in the back (top) row and were probably teachers.

Poor image of a group of unidentified students and their teachers posed in front of an unidentified school building.

Portrait photograph of Francis E. Palmer.

Francis Palmer is sometimes known as F.E. Palmer or "Eph" Palmer.

Palmer was the business teacher at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) during the 1930s and early 1940s.

After the Second World War,…

Portrait photograph of Major Edwin Wosley Grimmer.

At the time of the photograph, Grimmer was working for Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) as head of the school's ROTC program from 1940-?.

Previously he had served in the US Army.

Photograph of students and teachers from the class of 1912 posed as a group in front of the Lantz Mill School.

The caption, "Lantz Mill School", and the date, "3/12", are written on the bottom of the image.

Faded image of a group of students and their teachers posed in front of a building, probably their school. The child on the right is holding a slate that says, "June 1910".

Portrait photograph of Julia (Stickley) Campbell, who worked as a 1st and 2nd grade teacher in Strasburg.

She graduated from Strasburg High School and attended the State Teachers' College (now called JMU) in Harrisonburg.

Her 1925 yearbook…

Photograph of the students from Bowmans Crossing School about 1911.

They are identified as:
1st row (l to r): Ruth Baker, Raymond Baker, Medger Bowers, Clarence "Pete" Ward, Joe Bowers, Fred Grandstaff (Tip Downey), and Mertie Bowers.

2nd…

Photo of a photo of an unidentified individual wearing the uniform of a Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) Officer.

It appears this individual is an instructor at MMA who had served in the US Army.

Portrait photograph of Derwood Myers who worked as an agricultural teacher at Woodstock High School and later, at Central High School.

Large group of unidentified students and teachers, posed outside a large unidentified building, probably their school.

Photograph of unidentified students on the steps of the Lantz Mill School.

The unidentified woman on the left is most likely their teacher. She has her arm around a girl identified as Elizabeth Stoneburner. The other students are unidentified.…

Unidentified group of teachers serving the Shenandoah Valley Academy students in the 1930s.

Established in 1908, the Seventh-Day Adventist coeducational boarding school for high school students still exists and is located in New Market,…

Group of unidentified students and a teacher are posed together.

The banner held by a couple of the students labels this group as "Seniors" in 1933.

Possibly, these are students from Shenandoah Valley Academy (SVA) in New Market, Virginia, but…

Photograph of eight unidentified school-aged children with a what appears to be a teacher seated in the middle rear of the group.

A fenced enclosure is visible behind them.

Candid classroom scene with unidentified elementary-aged children at work while an unidentified teacher works with a boy one-on-one.

Pictures of Bible scenes on the walls indicate this was a Sunday school of some kind.
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