Portrait photograph of Mary Anna (Webster) Ryman with short styled hair and wearing a print dress. Mary Anna was born in Zepp, Virginia, to Floyd Carson and Vallie Maude Webster. She married Ernest Calvin Ryman (1924-1999). The couple raised four children: Floyd C. Ryman, James M. Ryman, Dwayne S. Ryman, and Mary J. (Ryman) Huffman. Mary Anna retired from Blue Bell/Wrangler after thirty plus years of service. She was a faithful member of her community volunteering at the Woodstock Moose, Shenandoah Memorial Hospital, Clothes Closet, and Food Bank.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "April 1945".
Additional biographical information was extracted from her obituary, on the Find-A-Grave website.
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Photograph of Katherine Cook with a bow in her hair and seated on a bench with her hands in her lap. The name, "Catherine Cook", is written on the glass plate.
Identified in 2025 by library staff based on other images of her in the Morrison Studio Collection.
Katherine Cook appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 017962, 018168, and 025519.
Unidentified barefoot baby is posed leaning back on a chair. The name, "Beverly Gantin", is written on the glass plate.
Cameron Copp as a toddler, seated on a chair. He was the son of Glenwood and Grace (Burner) Copp. The name, "Glenwood Copp", is written on the glass plate.
Unidentified smiling woman with shoulder-length curled hair is seated on a bench.
Unidentified older woman seated on a chair and wearing a flower corsage on her dress. The name, "Laura Smoot", is written on the glass plate.
Unidentified woman with a bow in her hair is seated with her legs crossed.
Unidentified woman with short hair is wearing glasses, a necklace, and a pin with her short-sleeved print dress.
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Apr 1945".
Soldiers - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man in a U.S. Army uniform posed beside an unidentified young woman with shoulder-length hair and wearing a ruffled collar on her dress. Probably, this was a husband and wife. The name, "Harry S. Pence", is written on the glass plate.
Sailors - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of John Aldine Smoot wearing a US Navy uniform. John went by the name "Aldine" and served during the Second World War. He was the son of Russell Ananias Smoot and Lula Catherine (Funkhouser) Polk Smoot. The patch on his lower right sleeve indicates he was an expert rifle or pistol shot. The name, "Aldine Smoot", is written on the glass plate.
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified young African American woman with short curled hair is seated on a bench and wearing a print dress.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man and woman posed together. Probably, this was a husband and wife. The name, "Mr and Mrs Biller", is written on the glass plate.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man in a suit and tie with two pins on his lapel and a handkerchief visible in his breast pocket. The name, "Kristin Ross", is written on the glass plate.
Unidentified young girl with bows in her pigtails is seated on a bench.
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "December 1943".
Unidentified young boy is seated on a chair and wearing a sailor-themed shirt and holding a toy.
Photograph William "Bill" Wetzel as an infant. He was the child of of Allen Wetzel and Virginia Elaine (Holler) Wetzel.
Identified as Bill or Beverly Wetzel in 2009 by Arlene Hamman, who did not know which of the two siblings is pictured, but was sure it was one of them.
Identification updated in 2024 by library staff based on other images of Bill and Beverly Wetzel.
William Wetzel appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 017948 and 018026.
Photograph of brothers, Richard Lee (left) and David M. (right) Rhodes of Maurertown. The two brothers were the sons of Ralph Joseph and Marguerite Dixie (Burner) Rhodes. They had a younger sister, Winnifred "Winnie" Rhodes, born a few years after this photograph was taken. Richard was a 1957 graduate of Toms Brook High School and married Geneva (Wellard) Rhodes in 1963. He worked for many years at FMC/Agritech and later for Bowman’s Applesauce. David M. Rhodes was a 20-year old farmer in 1956 when he married 16-year old Betty Jean Cooley of Woodstock. The couple raised four children together over the years: Joseph F., David Milton Jr., and James Allen Rhodes, and Beverly R. (Rhodes) Sine.
Identified in 2009 by J. Hockman, a neighbor of the family.
Photograph of a siblings Gloria and Larry R. Burks, posed together, when they were children. They were the only two children of Albert W. (1909-1945) and Estie Irene (Lentz) Burks (1918-2003) and grew up in Toms Brook. Their father died not long after this photograph was made. Both children appear in the 1940 and 1950 census for Toms Brook with their mother. They lived on the east side of Route 11. Gloria Dawn Burks eventually married Donald E. Mumaw and raised a family in Falls Church, Virginia. Larry settled in Midlothian, Virginia. He married Millie S. Burks and raised four children with her. When he died, his obituary in the Richmond Times Dispatch (9 Aug. 2005) noted he had worked for 32 years as a diesel mechanic for Great Coastal Trucking.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Unidentified boy seated on a bench with one leg under the other and wearing a long-sleeved shirt with stripes.
Unidentified young child is seated on a chair.
Unidentified young child seated on a chair and smiling.
Unidentified toddler is seated on the edge of a chair.
Unidentified barefoot baby is seated on a chair.
Unidentified baby with dark hair and bare feet, is posed against pillows on a chair.