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1921 photograph showing African American musicians and performers in costume and blackface for a production of “Virginia Minstrels” that benefited Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia.

Identified in the photograph are:

Front row,…

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Photograph showing Company A of the 2nd Virginia Volunteer Regiment after returning from service during the Spanish American War. It is dated December 15, 1898 and was taken by Hugh Morrison.

The company consisted primarily of men from Woodstock…

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Photographic postcard showing Rena Frances Coffelt. The image was produced by Woodstock photographer Hugh Morrison and is undated.

Rena Coffelt was born September 19, 1916 in Woodstock Virginia. On April 12, 1938 she married Ernest Albert Copp, a…

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Photographic postcard with an image of the "Mountain View Inn, Zepp Virginia."

Zepp lies in the northwestern portion of Shenandoah County along Cedar Creek. The exact location of this Inn and other details are unknown.

The image was taken and…

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Undated photograph of two women and two men.

The reverse of the image is labeled "R.W. Sweeney, Mrs. Sweeney, Mr. and Mrs. Hottle, sister and brother-in-law of RW Sweeney"

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Photograph showing the Woodstock High School Class of 1930. Pictured from left to right are:

First Row: Ione Beydler, Wilbur Lauck Newman, Edna Miller, Virginia Stickley, Jay Pence, Joycie Williams, Lisa Fleming, Robery Ramey, Romaine Foster.…

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Edinburg Fire Company "Soiree Minstrels" show held on April 3rd and 4th 1931. Show directed by Stanley Murray and Mrs. George W. Ring Jr. Photograph taken by Hugh Morrison of Woodstock Virginia. The show was held in the Edinburg Theater.

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Receipt acknowledging payment from George Fravel to Philip Spengler for taxes in 1820. Both lived in Shenandoah County.

The amount paid included 2 levies, 2 slaves, 5 horses, 351 acres of land, and 2 lots.

The receipt is dated September 12,…

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Postcard showing the "Massanutten Gap," now the New Market Gap, located just east of New Market Virginia.

The card is dated 1928.

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Postcard showing downtown buildings along Main Street in New Market Virginia. The picture also shows the old town pump.

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Postcard showing Massanutten Gap located north east of New Market Virginia

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Postcard with a picture of a railroad track running along the side of the Shenandoah River near Front Royal Virginia.

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Federal Internal Revenue Service Special Tax Stamp issued to W.J. Homan to be a retail dealer in Wines and Malt Liquors in July 1947.

W.J. Homan operated "Bills Place" on King Street in Strasburg. Evidence indicates this business operated at least…

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Undated cabinet card photograph labeled "Ella." It was produced by the Irwin Photo Co. of Edinburg Virginia.

http://archives.countylib.org/plugins/Dropbox/files/Pages from newspapers past Calvary School Reunion 1975 June 5 2003 Free Press.pdf
Picture of the 1975 reunion of students from the former Calvary School held at W.O. Riley Park in Woodstock Virginia

http://archives.countylib.org/plugins/Dropbox/files/Pages from newspapers past May 3 1929 Calvary School Pupils May 5 2005.pdf
Picture of the pupils at Calvary School west of Woodstock with names

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Postcard showing the Massanutten Mountain.

The perspective of the image is looking east from along the Valley Turnpike between Mt. Jackson and New Market. The prominent feature on the mountain visible is commonly called "The Knob."

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http://archives.countylib.org/plugins/Dropbox/files/Pages from Newspapers Past Courthouse Postcard 04-15-2004 Free Press.pdf
Picture of a postcard showing the Shenandoah County Courthouse and part of court square

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Picture of a postcard showing "Mountain Folk at Home Near Byrce's Hotel and Cottages, Bayse VA"

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Color postcard showing an aerial view of Massanutten Military Academy located in Woodstock Virginia.

The postcard is undated and was produced by J.J. Showalter-Gitchell Enterprises of Harrisonburg Virginia.

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Postcard showing the administration building at the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music in Dayton VA

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

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This letter was sent from J.S. Patterson to Samuel Spiggle on October 2, 1919. Both were members of the 80th Infantry Division during the First World War and this piece of correspondence discusses efforts to locate old comrades and their life after…

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Fraktur commemorating the birth of Elizabeth Rinker of Shenandoah County.

The Fraktur is dated 1835 and reads:

"To This Couple Wilhelm Rinker and His Wife Sarah Whose Maiden Name is Painter (Bender) Was Born Into This World A Daughter, Year of…
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