Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of the 1912 Basketball team at the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).

The players are unidentified.

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Photograph of five Massanutten Military Academy basketball players posing on a set of steps. "M.A. 1913." is written on the bottom left of the photograph, as well as the number "13" over the basketball held by the player on the right.

The players…

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Group photograph of the unidentified members of the 1914 Massanutten Military Academy's football team. They are assembled on the steps of a campus building. In the front center, a cadet is holding a football with the notation, "MA -14".

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Scan of the cover of the First Annual Exhibition Premium Book from the 1917 Shenandoah County Fair.

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Les Fouts, an MMA cadet, wearing his school's basketball team uniform and holding a basketball with the words, "MMA 1923" written on it.

Leslie “Les” Fouts was a cadet at Massanutten Academy from 1922-1924. He later returned to the Academy and is…

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Scan of a stamped feather advertising the Shenandoah County Fair in 1933.

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Scan of the cover of the 1935 Shenandoah County Fair Premium List Book.

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Scan of the cover of the 1957 Shenandoah County Fair Premium Book.

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Photograph showing a 1969 4-H exhibit at the Shenandoah County Fair. It highlighted, among other things, the recent moon landing.

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Scan of the 1976 4-H/FFA Dairy Show at the Shenandoah County Fair.

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Scan of a photograph showing a 4-H display at the 1990 Shenandoah County Fair.

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Photograph of John Cutlip (left) and others at the 1970 4-H show at the Shenandoah County Fair. Cutlip was extension agent at the time and later became the first county administrator.

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Photograph showing an unidentified girl and boy performing at the 1970 4-H talent show held at the Shenandoah County Fair.

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Scan of a photograph showing a 4-H exhibit at the 1993 Shenandoah County Fair.

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Color postcard showing the Seven Bends of the Shenandoah River located near Woodstock Virginia.

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Little was recorded about horse-back riding at Massanutten Academy in 1940. Apparently most of it was done at Camp Lupton, the academy’s recreation center and maneuver grounds along the Shenandoah River east of town.

In addition to camping…

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Color postcard with a picture of a road and scenery near Woodstock Virginia.

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Postcard with a picture taken of the Fairview community located just west of Woodstock Virginia.

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Photograph of Rev. A. A. J. Bushong.

A Lutheran Minister, Bushong served several churches in Shenandoah County during the late 19th century. This includes Mt. Zion Lutheran Church at Fairview which he led from 1884-1895.

Born October 2, 1832,…

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Color postcard with a picture of the Administration Building (now Sperry Hall) at Massanutten Academy, now military academy, in Woodstock Virginia.

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Scan of an admission ticket from the 1982 Shenandoah County Fair.

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1921 photograph showing African American musicians and performers in costume and blackface for a Minstrel Show production.

Mt. Zion Methodist Church is a historically black congregation was established in 1867. Most likely this photograph is from…

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In October of 1913 Frank J. Terrill brought his Curtis Biplane to the Shenandoah County Fairgrounds as part of the fair’s festivities.
This is the first recorded time an airplane passed through Shenandoah County and would have been most local’s…

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Portrait of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town Road in the…
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