Unidentified girl with a bow in her hair is seated on a chair with her ankles crossed. She is wearing white sandals. The name, "Mrs Jno Ryman", is written on the glass plate.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Feb 1946".
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Photo of a framed photograph of an unidentified young woman with dark hair and wearing a checkered dress.
Unidentified woman with her hair back and wearing glasses and a print dress, is seated with an unidentified young boy sitting on her lap. The name, "Ida Polk", is written on the glass plate.
Arrington, Charlotte Wisman Richards (1923-1995)
Damaged photograph of Charlotte Wisman (Richards) Arrington seated on a bench as a young woman. She was born in Page County, Virginia, to James Homer and Annie Delia (Wisman) Richards. She grew up in Woodstock. She lived on N. Church Street in Woodstock. Her father co-owned a shop on N. Main Street next to where the Bank of America is located. Charlotte attended Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and met her husband, Thomas Marshall Arrington there. He was a First Lieutenant attached to the Army Medical Corps when they married in 1945. In the 1950 census, Charlotte and her husband lived at Camp Ritchie, Washington County, Maryland where her husband was a medical supervisor at the chronic disease hospital there. By then, the couple had three children, Thomas Marshal, Jr., James Richard and Cheryl Arrington. Thirty five years later, in 1980, the couple divorced. By then, Charlotte lived in Richmond, Virginia, where she stayed for the rest of her life.
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Oct 1941".
Identified in 2010 by Sarah Nelson, a friend of the subject.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Charlotte (Richards) Arrington appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002202, 002204, 002207, 002211, and 021743.
Unidentified young child is posed on a chair.
Unidentified girl with short hair is standing by a bench and wearing a bow on her dress and striped socks.
Unidentified young woman, probably teen-aged, with short hair held with a barrette, is seated on a bench with her ankles crossed. She is wearing striped socks.
Photograph of Glenn Jacob Wetzel, Jr. as a young boy sitting on a chair. His parents were Glenn J. Wetzel, Sr. (1918-2014) and Lena Catherine (Mauck) Wetzel (1920-2009).
Identified in 2011 by Glenn J. Wetzel, Jr., himself, who had the same photograph at home.
Unidentified baby is lying on a blanket.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with shoulder-length hair and a pin on her collar.
Unidentified woman is seated on a bench with an arm around an unidentified young boy who is standing beside her. Probably, this was a mother and her son.
Unidentified woman with short hair and wearing a print dress is seated and holding an unidentified young child on her lap. Emulsion damage obscures much of the child's image.
Photograph of Norma June (Grabill) Evans as a young woman seated on a bench. She was from Woodstock, the daughter of Lester Eugene and Hazel Alberta (Stinson) Grabill. After high school, Norma attended Shenandoah Business College and Madison College. By 1948, she was a senior in the Duke University School of Nursing. It was in North Carolina that she met her first husband, Steve Donald Arledge. He was a student at the nearby Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina. The couple married in 1948. In the 1950 census, Norma lived in Durham with her husband and a 6 month old daughter, Pamela. She was working as a registered nurse. The couple divorced not long after. Norma's second husband was Robert B. Evans whom she married in 1953. The couple lived in the Richmond, Virginia, area for many of their years together.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified girl with short curled hair held with a barrette and wearing a lace collar on her dress.
Unidentified girl with a bow in her hair is standing by a bench. Significant emulsion damage is visible on the right side.
Unidentified older man wearing suspenders and a tie is holding an unidentified young boy. Probably, these two were related to each other.
Same unidentified man and boy appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 021729 and 021731.
Unidentified young boy is seated on a bench with one leg under the other. A stuffed dog is beside him.
Same unidentified boy appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 021729 and 021730.
Unidentified man in a suit is seated beside an unidentified woman in a print dress. Two unidentified young boys are posed on their laps. Probably, this was a family group.
Same unidentified child on the right appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 021729 and 021730.
Same unidentified man and boy on the left appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 021729 and 021731.
Unidentified blond girl with a bow in her curly hair is seated on a bench with her ankles crossed.
Unidentified young child is seated on a pillow on a chair and holding a toy.
Unidentified young girl with bangs is seated on a chair with a doll and holding something in her hand.
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Jan 1940".
Same unidentified girl appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 021725 and 021726.
Unidentified young girl with bangs is sitting on a chair with her ankles crossed. A doll is on the chair with her.
Photograph of Mary Ellen (Smith) Etsminger in a plaid skirt and standing by a chair. Mary Ellen was born in Lexington, Virginia, the daughter of Graham and Linda Ann (Engsinger) Smith. Her family moved to Strasburg when she was young. She married James McDowell Etsminger in Staunton, Virginia, in 1946. Mary Ellen died when she was only 37 years old, of cancer.
Identified in 2010 by Graham Conner who worked with her at the Massanutten Restaurant in Strasburg.
Mary Ellen (Smith) Etsminger appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 014265, 021580, and 021724.
Unidentified young woman with curly hair parted in the middle and held with barrettes on each side. She is standing by a chair.
Unidentified barefoot toddler is seated on a chair.