Postcard showing a picture of the Chapin & Sachs Manufacturing Plant in Woodstock Virginia. The company, based in Washington DC, processed local dairy into ice cream in Woodstock from 1910 until ca. 1930.
Before there was television, mass photography, and social media there were postcards.
Starting in the early 20th century they became popular forms of communication. Over the next few decades the became primarily associated with tourism as…
Postcard showing depictions of the Colonial Hotel in New Market Virginia. The card shows three images, one of the hotel's exterior, one of its lobby, and one of the Gift and Art shop that operated inside.
Postcard with a picture of Massanutten Academy's (now Massanutten Military Academy) Benchoff Hall under construction with description of the building's use.
Postcard showing a Conestoga Wagon on display at the Zirkledale Museum. The museum was located at an unknown site near New Market Virginia, The wagon was supposedly constructed in that town.
Postcard showing a Conestoga Wagon on display at the Zirkledale Museum. The museum was located at an unknown site near New Market Virginia, The wagon was supposedly constructed in that town.
Postcard with a picture of the Confederate Monument located at Our Soldiers Cemetery in Mt. Jackson Virginia. Card notes 350 men were buried there, 112 unknown Confederates.
Postcard with a colorized photograph of the "Cora Miller Hospital."
This hospital was located on Muhlenberg Street in Woodstock Virginia. Built as a private residence, this structure still stands. It housed a hospital from the 1920s through 1951…
Postcard with a picture of Court Square in Woodstock Virginia. Pictures is the jail, jail yard, and the Historic Shenandoah County Courthouse built in 1795.