Shenandoah County Library Archives

Shenandoah County Library Digital Archives

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Postcard with a picture of a corn field located along the Shenandoah River near Strasburg Virginia.

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Postcard with an image of the Shenandoah River and US Highway 11 near Fishers Hill.

The view looks north toward Strasburg Virginia. The card was produced in 1911.

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Postcard with a picture of an unidentified farm, house, and barn in Shenandoah County.

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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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Postcard with a photograph of men and horses in a "harvest scene" in the Shenandoah Valley. It icnludes a description of the valley's agricultural history.

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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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Postcard showing a crew of men with a team of horses and mules seeding farmland on Meems Bottom. Located just south of Mt. Jackson Virginia.

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

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Postcard showing the Mt. Airy Farm located at Meems Bottom near Mt. Jackson Virginia.

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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 individuals loading hay onto horse drawn wagons near New Market Virginia.

The card is undated and has been colorized.

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Postcard showing the River Lawn Farm house located approximately three miles from New Market Virginia

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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 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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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial image of an unidentified farm.

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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the Tisinger Farm located just south of Mt. Jackson Virginia on US Route 11.

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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing a group of women with a refreshment table at the Grand Opening event for Vehrencamps, which sold tractors and farm implements from their location on the north end of Mt. Jackson Virginia.

The women…

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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an unidentified farm.

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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an unidentified farm.

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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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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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Mabel Runion spent most of her life in the Lantz Mill’s community. Her and her husband Peter moved there in 1938 after living for a few years in the Fairview Community.

The Runions were known for the wide array of animals that lived on their farm.…

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Photograph of an unidentified woman feeding animals at an unidentified location.

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Photograph showing an unidentified woman with animals.

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Undated photograph showing Walter Boyd driving his auto track that he used as a tractor. Behind the truck is hay rakewith an unidentified individual on board.

This photograph is labeled:

Granddaddy Walter and his Tractor
Picture Boyd taken…
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