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Unidentified African American man standing in a baseball uniform with a "W" on the front and holding a bat.

This indicates he may have played for a segregated team in Woodstock Virginia.

Unidentified African American man. Negative has damage on bottom left and right.

Portrait of an unidentified African American woman with a long-sleeved dress and wearing a necklace.

Photograph of the aftermath of a destructive fire in Woodstock that destroyed many buildings in the downtown area. The gas lamp in the foreground is the on the edge of the courthouse property looking across the street. Sometimes the area burned is…

Portrait photograph of Agnes Molly (Lineweaver) Orndorff as a young woman.

Agnes married Newton Orndorff and together they had a son, Steve, and a daughter, Yvonne. Agnes' husband worked at the Northern Virginia Daily office in Strasburg from…

Unidentified agricultural building with a row of high windows along the top left and a door leading into it. Perhaps this portion of the building was used to house chickens.

Another door leads into the right side of the building.

At the far…

This is a wedding photograph of Alfred Lavinder and Dorothy Lantz.

Born in Roanoke, Al was the son of Wiley W. and Annie L. Lavinder. He served in the US Army, 29th Infantry Division as a Sergeant during WWll.

On D-Day, June 6,1944, Al landed…

Portrait photograph of Lieutenant Alan Richardson wearing his U.S. Army Infantry Reserves uniform.

Lt. Richardson served as the Commandant of Cadets at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock, Virginia.

This photograph appeared in the…

Photograph of an advertisement for an alarm clock made by Westclox called the "Big Ben".

Photograph of the Bowers family posed together outside with a dog.

Identified are:
Back row (l to r): Vallie E. (Bowers) Tevault, her mother and father, Ida Pearl (Good) Bowers and Albert Cornelius Bowers.

Front row (l to r): Treascea Helen…

Photograph of Albert O. Bowers (left) and Gale Bowers (right).

The two were children of Ernest Giblert Bowers and Effie Heltzel Bowers.

The name, "Ernest Bowers", is written on the glass negative of this image.

Portrait photograph of Albert Sydney Kaplan as a cadet attending Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was located on…

Photo of a photograph of Albert Kaplan (1921-2000) as a young man. He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. Albert had two brothers, Julius and Berton. The family…

Photo of a photograph of Albert Kaplan as a young man.

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was located on the corner of Fort and King Streets but burned…

Portrait photograph of Albert Sydney Kaplan wearing his Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) school uniform.

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was…

Portrait of Hazel Bertha Helsley and her husband Albert Wilkins.

Hazel was the youngest chlid of George W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Lutz) Helsley. She was given to Jacob and Virginia Miller as a two year old and raised by them.

Portrait photograph of Alberta Byrd (Tolliver) Nickens, of Woodstock, as a young woman.

Her parents were Theodore and Mabel (Byrd) Tolliver of Woodstock. In the 1930 census, she was listed as a 4-year old boy, “Albert”, the youngest of four…

Portrait photograph of Alden Gochenour Richman as a young man in his U.S. Navy Uniform.

His wife was Bertha M. Winkler (1924-2007). They are buried together in Alonzaville, west of Maurertown.

Unidentified baby looking alert and posed on a studio chair that has been covered with cloth as a backdrop.

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…

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…

Portrait photograph 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…

Photograph 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…

Photograph of a Maryland marriage license attesting that Charles "Edward" Alexander from Shelby, North Carolina, and Daisy Alice Beatley from Virginia (but living in Washington D.C.), were married in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, on January 29, 1941.

He…

Photograph of Reverend Alexander Andrew J. Bushong.

Bushong was a Lutheran Minister who served the Shenandoah Lutheran Parish from 1880-1885.

At that time, Shenandoah Lutheran Parish consisted of three churches: Mt. Zion, St. Luke and Lebanon…
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