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Title
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Morrison Studio Collection
Subject
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Morrison, Hugh Jr. (1871-1950)
Morrison, Louis
Morrison, James
Description
An account of the resource
In 1899 Hugh Morrison Jr. opened a photograph studio on W. Court Street in Woodstock after several years of working in the area as a travelling photographer.
Between that time, and the time his grandson James Morrison closed the studio in 1988, the Morrison family captured thousands of portraits, landscapes, and buildings on film and glass negatives.
In 1999 the Shenandoah County Historical Society acquired over 31,000 of these negatives from the estate of local collector Charles D. Bauserman. Volunteers from the historical society worked over the next several decades to house, number, and scan each image. This effort resulted in over two tons of Morrison plates and negatives being processed and digitized.
This collection contains those digitized versions of these photographs.
Through a partnership between the historical society and the Shenandoah County Library's Truban Archives access to a growing number of these images is available to the public. Current projections indicate the full collection will be available for viewing sometime in 2028.
This collection does contain some images of a sexual and/or graphic nature that some viewers may find inappropriate.
Creator
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Morrison Studios
Source
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Hugh Morrison Collection, Shenandoah County Historical Society Inc.
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900-1980
Contributor
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A special thanks to Tracy McMahon for her dedicated work entering metadata for this collection.
A special thank you to the Shenandoah County Historical Society for their efforts to number and scan each image.
Rights
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Digital images: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Copyright for these images is held by the Shenandoah County Historical Society. Contact the Shenandoah County Historical Society (www.https://www.shenandoahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/) for permission to utilize images commercially, for high resolution scans, or for prints.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Glass Negative
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Identifier
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007634
Creator
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Morrison Studio
Source
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Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Rights
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IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Title
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William H. Polk and Family
Subject
The topic of the resource
Polk, William Henry (1891-1972)
Polk, Anna B. (Arrington) (unk-1930)
Polk, Edna H. (Steptoe) (1891-1969)
Polk, William Albert Carter (1922- )
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of William H. Polk standing behind his mother, Anna B. (Arrington) Polk (seated left), his wife, Edna, and his oldest son, William A. Polk. He is most remembered for having worked as a minister in the early 1920’s at the Mt. Zion Methodist Church, a historically black church in Woodstock.
William was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William Henry Polk (born in Delaware) and Anna B. (Arrington) Polk (born in Alabama). In 1910, he lived with his parents on Fairmont Avenue. His father worked as a Hostler for a factory stable while his mother worked as a dressmaker in a shirtwaist factory. The family also had three lodgers living with them.
When he registered for the WWI draft in 1917, he was a “Minister of the Gospel” in a Methodist Church in Monroe County, West Virginia. His father had died and he supported his mother.
William’s mother, Anna B. Arrington Polk was born in Alabama to Robert Arrington. The name of her mother and the year of her birth are not known. The 1910 census reported that Anna had borne 7 children, of which only 2 were still living. After her husband died, Anna lived with her son, William, for more than ten years. She died in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
The 1920 census, enumerated in February, found William and his widowed mother, Anna, living in Carroll County, Maryland. Shortly after, they moved to Shenandoah County where William met Edna H. Steptoe (1891-1969) who lived in New Market. They married in November 1920. She was born in Grottoes, Rockingham County, and was the daughter of a preacher, Albert C. Steptoe (1892-1944), and Anna (Strother) (1890-1954) Steptoe.
The couple’s first son, William Albert Carter Polk, was born in October 1922, and we believe this photograph was taken a few months later.
William Henry Polk’s work as a minister meant he and Edna moved many times during their decades together. They had four children: William A.C., Leona H., Vaucrosson L. and Anthony F. The two youngest were born in Washington D.C (ca. 1926) and Maryland (ca. 1928), respectively. In 1930, the family lived in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 1940, they were in Poolesville, Maryland where they owned their home. By 1950, William and Edna still had one daughter, Leona, living with them. By then, they lived on West Cornwell Street in Leesburg, where they retired and spent most of their remaining days. Both of them are buried in Gleedsville, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Reverend Polk’s son, William A.C. Polk, married twice. First, to Margaret Sallie Atwell in 1948 in Leesburg. Reverend Polk officiated at his son’s first wedding. Her parents were Herman S. and Elizabeth V. (Wells) Atwell. His second wife was Winona Davis (1933-2002) who was originally from Pennsylvania. He spent the latter part of his life with her in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina.
Date
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Labelled "July 1922" on box of plates.
Contributor
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Biographical information was compiled from public records.
Relation
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William H. Polk appears in Morrison Studio Collection 000327, 003965, and 007634.
William H. Polk also appears in image 18-0507-0279 of the George W. Smith Collection. This photograph was also taken by Morrison Studios.
African Americans
Arrington
Davis
Methodist Church
Polk
Shenandoah County
Steptoe
Virginia
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Morrison Studio Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Morrison, Hugh Jr. (1871-1950)
Morrison, Louis
Morrison, James
Description
An account of the resource
In 1899 Hugh Morrison Jr. opened a photograph studio on W. Court Street in Woodstock after several years of working in the area as a travelling photographer.
Between that time, and the time his grandson James Morrison closed the studio in 1988, the Morrison family captured thousands of portraits, landscapes, and buildings on film and glass negatives.
In 1999 the Shenandoah County Historical Society acquired over 31,000 of these negatives from the estate of local collector Charles D. Bauserman. Volunteers from the historical society worked over the next several decades to house, number, and scan each image. This effort resulted in over two tons of Morrison plates and negatives being processed and digitized.
This collection contains those digitized versions of these photographs.
Through a partnership between the historical society and the Shenandoah County Library's Truban Archives access to a growing number of these images is available to the public. Current projections indicate the full collection will be available for viewing sometime in 2028.
This collection does contain some images of a sexual and/or graphic nature that some viewers may find inappropriate.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Morrison Studios
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Hugh Morrison Collection, Shenandoah County Historical Society Inc.
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900-1980
Contributor
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A special thanks to Tracy McMahon for her dedicated work entering metadata for this collection.
A special thank you to the Shenandoah County Historical Society for their efforts to number and scan each image.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Digital images: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Copyright for these images is held by the Shenandoah County Historical Society. Contact the Shenandoah County Historical Society (www.https://www.shenandoahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/) for permission to utilize images commercially, for high resolution scans, or for prints.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Glass Negatives
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Identifier
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001692
Creator
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Morrison Studio
Source
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Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Rights
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IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Title
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"Rev. Freeland"
Subject
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African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Clergy - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Description
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Portrait of an unidentified woman identified as "Rev. Freeland."
Identified as a deaconess who would conduct revival services at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia and other local African American congregations.
Date
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Mid 1920's.
Contributor
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Identified by William Polk who remembered that subject used to come to his church to conduct revivals.
Relation
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This unidentified woman appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001692 and 015656.
African Americans
Methodist
Methodist Church
Mt. Zion
Shenandoah County
Virginia
Women
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Title
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Shenandoah County Fair
Subject
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Shenandoah County Fair (Va)
Description
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A collection of digital images related to the history of the Shenandoah County Fair. It includes photographs of fair events, exhibitors, and agricultural displays. The items were scanned by the Northern Virginia Daily newspaper for use in the book "100 Years of the Shenandoah County Fair."
Creator
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Northern Virginia Daily
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Date
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1887-2015
Rights
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
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English
Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
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Title
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United Methodist Men Food Stand
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shenandoah County Fair (Va)
Toms Brook United Methodist Church (Va)
Description
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Scan of an undated photograph showing the Toms Brook Methodist Church's Methodist Men food stand at the Shenandoah County Fair.
Source
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Northern Virginia Daily- Shenandoah County Fair Digital Collection
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Contributor
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Physical objects donated for scanning by the Gloria Artz Ryman.
Rights
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Fair
Fairs
Methodist Church
Shenandoah County
Toms Brook
Virginia
Woodstock