Shenandoah County Library Archives

Shenandoah County Library Digital Archives

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Postcard with a picture of the principal and faculty at the former Woodstock High School on Court Street.

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Photograph showing Frances Jenkins (1884-1980), teacher at Strasburg High School. The picture was taken sometime around 1920, It appears in Pauline Lichliter's high school scrapbook.

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Photograph of Josephine Miller (Lynn) and Marie Boyer at Harrisonburg State Teacher's College sometime around 1930. Both graduated and became teachers in Shenandoah County.

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Document announcing public sale for the personal property of William C. Pettit, deceased. Pettit was a teacher who had taught for a period in Hardy County and then in Shenandoah County where he died sometime in the early 1850s.

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Portrait of Clayton I. Spessard wearing a suit and tie and high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and History.

This appears to be a…

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Photo of an oval framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard in a suit and tie with a high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and…

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Photo of an oval-framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard.

Clayton was a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Academy at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is a photographic copy of an earlier Morrison Studio image.

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Photo of four separate images, two of which are the same. One image is superimposed over another.

The image of the man has been identified as Clayton I. Spessard, a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Military Academy at the…

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Portrait of Judith Nelson Gaines Adams as a young woman. She taught school in Shenandoah County after college.

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Group of unidentified SVA students and teachers assembled on the steps of one of the campus buildings.

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Group photograph of the students and teachers of the class of 1919 at the St. Luke Graded School.

All have been identified as follows:

Front row, (l to r): Robert Walker, Chester Riffey, Joe Wetzel, Theodore Markley, Dorothy Shipp, James…

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Portrait of Mary Bair Bowman as a young woman.

Mary was the only child of Franklin Schmucker (1871-1963) and Sarah Fletcher (Supinger) (1870-1953) Bowman.

She was a teacher in Shenandoah County for many years. According to her mother's…

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Margaret (Grabill) Jones with her hair pulled back and wearing a long string of faux pearls.

Margaret was a descendant of Captain Grabill, the first Superintendent of Schools in Shenandoah County. She taught English at both Woodstock and New…

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth wearing a suit and tie. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a Principal.

Milton married…

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Portrait of Eleonor Hottel Balthis, who never married and became a teacher.

Born in Strasburg, she was the oldest child of Robert Fleming (1876-1944) and Hattie May (Hottel) (1882-1922) Balthis.

Interestingly, her civil birth was recorded…

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

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Portrait of Xina Holmes Durette. She was a newspaper reporter, teacher, and school principal in Luray, Virginia.

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth as a young man wearing a suit and tie.

He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a…

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Group of unidentified students and teachers posed as a group in front of Shenandoah Valley Academy's original "Main Dormitory."

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Group of unidentified students and teachers at the Strasburg School.

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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, Virginia.

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Group of unidentified students and at least one unidentified teacher posed outside an unidentified school building.

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Photograph of educator Genevieve McClain (center) standing with four of her students. They are:

Front row, left: Betty Steptoe
Front row, right: Frances Cyrus Corley
Rear row, left: Perry Dyer
Rear row, right: Jean Dyer

These students are…
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