Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of the French Brothers Dairy located on Water Street in Woodstock Virginia.

The image is labeled by the producer "France Brother Milk D.H."

It is dated 1980.

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Postcard showing US Route 11 passing through "Meem's Bottom."

The view looks north from the area of Rude's Hill, a geographic feature located between Mt. Jackson and New Market. The house and barn on the left of the image still stand (as of 2023)…

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Postcard showing B.E. Nelson's wheat field.

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If you had attended a community event in the 70s, or 80s you might have found Betty Showman there, dressed as the popular TV character Minnie Pearl.

A resident of Conicville, Betty began performing as Minnie in 1963. She took her act to various…

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Photograph of the Bushong Farm located in the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park north of New Market, Virginia. The Federal-styled home was built in 1825 to accommodate Jacob Bushong and Sarah Strickler's growing family.

The 1864…

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Photograph of three cows at an unidentified farm.

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Photograph of four cows eating grass. There is a vehicle and two farm buildings also visible in the picture.

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Photographic postcard showing the driveway leading to "Mt. Airy" a farm along the Shenandoah River in the Meems Bottom area just south of Mt. Jackson Virginia.

The image also shows the Massanutten Mountain in the background and was taken near…

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Statement issued by the Shenandoah Co-Operative Farm Bureau to the Edinburg Hatchery for items purchased during the month of November 1939.

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Postcard with a picture showing a man holding a snake in front of the entrance to the Edinburg Snake and Alligator Farm located in Bowman's Crossing.

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Panorama of a farm house on a knob with various barns and outbuildings around it.

The farm was located on Headley Road, along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, and east of Maurertown.

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Photograph of an unidentified farm with a house and multiple other buildings. There is a river in the foreground and a mountain visible behind the house. "6398-03367" is written on the glass plate.

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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing tractors participating in the corn harvest at an unidentified farm.

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Twp photographs showing two unidentified men loading or unloading a wagon filled with hay.

Based on the date of a related image, these photographs most likely date to ca. 1916.

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Photograph of a group of unidentified farm workers standing around two horses pulling a piece of farm equipment. In addition to the men in farm clothes, there is a man wearing a suit as well as a man with a cook's apron holding a large pan and…

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Photographs showing a groups of farmers/agricultural laborers making hay with horse powered equipment. The photographs are dated August 26 1929.

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This picture shows a paper milk-bottle cap produced by Woodstock Virginia’s Ford-Cooley Dairy. The dairy was located just south of Woodstock near Narrow Passage. It operated from sometime in the 1930s until around 1960.

It would have been used…

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Photograph of a well with a bucket and rope/hand cranking system for retrieving water. A small roof overhead protects the water as well.

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Photograph showing the home and farm of Harold Morrison Sr. and his wife Loise Morrison.

Harold Morrison Sr. and his dog Brownie are visible in the foreground of the photograph.

The property was located on U.S. Route 11, east of Pugh's…

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Photograph showing the home and farm of Harold Morrison Sr. and his wife Loise Morrison.

The property was located on U.S. Route 11, east of Pugh's Run.

Harold Morrison was the son of Hugh Morrison, Jr., and bought the property in 1943.

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Photograph showing the home and farm of Harold Morrison Sr. and his wife Loise Morrison.

The property was located on U.S. Route 11, east of Pugh's Run.

Harold Morrison was the son of Hugh Morrison, Jr., and bought the property in 1943.

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Photograph showing sets of harnessed horses in a field somewhere in Shenandoah County.

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Photograph labeled "John Paul Williams Farm." Image shows group of individuals in front of a brick house posing with a car and truck. The location of the farm and identities of who is in the picture in unknown.

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Scale ticket and sale bill issued to Paul Runion by the Woodstock Livestock Market Inc.

The items are for the sale of a 220 pound calf on June 6, 1945. The gross amount for the sale was $36.30.

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Photograph showing two boys on a Southern Railway Express Company loading wagon filled with chickens.

The photograph is dated October 1914. The boys are unidentified. Most likely the image was taken at the Toms Brook railroad depot, but that…
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