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Photo of an older photograph of three unidentified people: two females in floral print dresses that were made from the same cloth, and a young boy with his hand in his coat pocket.

Probably, this was a family photograph.

Portrait photograph of three unidentified young people, two young men and a girl.

Possibly, they were siblings.

Three unidentified young people, a young girl, an older boy, and a teenaged young woman, are posed together.

Probably, these were siblings.

A name is written on the glass plate but it is not readable. It looks like "Huge" or "Hye__".

Three unidentified young people, two men and a woman, are posed together.

The young man standing in the back is wearing a bow tie and has an arm around the young woman next to him. She has a hand on the shoulder of the unidentified young man…

Photograph of three unidentified young women, all wearing similar clothing and hairstyles.

Portrait photograph of three unidentified young women, all wearing similar bows in their hair.

Probably, these were siblings.

Three unidentified women, all wearing the same pin on their dresses.

Three unidentified young women are posed together.

Three unidentified women, all with their hair pulled up and wearing bows on top, are posed together.

Photograph of three unidentified young women standing together on the altar of Woodstock United Methodist Church.

All are wearing formal dresses and corsages. The church altar is decorated with ribbons and floral arrangements.

The ribbon in…

Photograph of three unidentified young women standing together on the altar of Woodstock United Methodist Church.

All are wearing formal dresses and corsages. The church altar is decorated with ribbons and floral arrangements.

The ribbon in the…

Photograph of a single page from the "Enlisted Record" of Private Thruston S. Peer.

He was inducted into the U.S. Army on August 18, 1941 in Roanoke, Virginia. He completed 8 months and 24 days of Army service before being discharged in "Fair"…

Photograph of Thruston Spencer Peer (1918-1966). Thruston lived in the Zepp community of Shenandoah County Virginia.

Portrait photograph of Tilden Hopewell Mowery, of Strasburg, as a young man.

Born in Frederick County, his father was Clarence L. Mowery. When he registered for the WWII draft, Tilden's employer was the HL Borden Company in Strasburg. In the 1950…

Photograph of Sarah Evelyn (Bibbs) Timbers (seated left) with her three children: Fannie (Timbers) Butler (seated right), and standing (l to r) William and Jett "Elmer" Timbers.

Sarah Evelyn Bibbs was born to Carter and Louisa Bibbs, one of eleven…

Portrait photograph of Timothy "Tim" Lehmann Jr, then of Edinburg Virginia, wearing a striped suit, bow tie and shown with a cigarette in his mouth.

Timothy Lehmann Jr. was born September 11, 1906, in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Ohio…

Photograph of Timothy Phalen as a boy.

He was from Strasburg, the son of Timothy Bernard and Lillian Ruth (Smith) Phalen. He had a brother, James, and a sister, Cecelia. His father was a well-known locomotive engineer for the B&O railroad.

In…

Photograph of handwritten entries in a book listing the births of nine Tisingers between 1863 and 1902.

Transcribed, the pages read:

Chas. H. Tisinger, Born Jan. 4, 1868
Sarah V. Tisinger, Born Dec. 18, 1863
Wilbur J. Tisinger, Born March 14,…

Photo of a single title page from a bible.

The page identifies itself as a "Parmelee & Co.'s Household Edition" and that it was "translated out of the original tongues".

This edition was published in Philadelphia by Parmelee & Company. No date…

Photograph of the title page of the book, "History of the Valley of Virginia" by Samuel Kercheval. It was published in Winchester by Samuel H. Davis in 1833.

Portrait photograph of Tobias Ritenour, Jr., in his U.S. Army uniform.

Plate shows damage.

Unidentified toddler.

The subject is identified as the son of Lousie Clem Racey. She had two boys Randy Lee Racey and Jerry Allen Racey. We do not know which son this is.

Unidentified toddler standing on a chair. The image is over exposed and dark.

Portrait photograph of an unidentified shirtless, young child with curly hair and looking to the side, almost in profile..

Photo of a framed photograph of an unidentified toddler seated on a child-sized chair.
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