Photograph showing an unidentified farmhouse in Woodstock Virginia. Most likely the image shows the area across from what is now Massanutten Military Academy.
Donated for scanning by Ron Roller, June 27 2018.
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Photograph showing an unidentified scene, possibly of a town.
Photograph of four boys standing in front of Massanutten Academy, now Massanutten Military Academy. Charles Roller is pictured second from the right. Riddleberger Hall is pictured in the background.
Photograph showing the baseball team for Massanutten Academy, now Massanutten Military Academy, sometime around 1910. Two individuals in the photograph are identified. At the far right of the center row is Charles Roller. In the front row, center is William Wylie Middleton.
Letter to Woodstock Ball Club from R.K. Hoch
Letter written from R.K. Hoch to the manager of the "Woodstock Ball Club" inquiring about playing for the team that year. At the time Woodstock fielded a team as part of the Shenandoah Valley Baseball League which included teams from throughout the region. The Woodstock manager was W.E. Stickley who also played on the team. Hoch was a catcher for the University of Delaware's baseball team in 1922, 1923, and 1924. When he wrote to the Woodstock team it was under the advice of his coach Howard Burton Shipley. While at Delaware he appears to have been a member of the Delta Sigma Nu Fraternity whose newsletter from that year indicates two other members of his family had also played baseball for the team while at Delaware. At the time it was common for college baseball plays to play for local baseball teams during the summer alongside local players. However, it does not appear that Hoch ever played for the Woodstock team.
Folder 1.44: Correspondence between Woodstock Baseball Club and Players, 1923, Bonnie Painter Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Edinburg Fire Company's "Soiree Minstrels"
Blackface entertainers-Virginia-Edinburg
Edinburg Fire Company "Soiree Minstrels" show held on April 3rd and 4th 1931. Show directed by Stanley Murray and Mrs. George W. Ring Jr. Photograph taken by Hugh Morrison of Woodstock Virginia. The show was held in the Edinburg Theater.
Hugh Morrison, Morrison Studios Woodstock Va.
Edinburg Fire Company's "Soiree Minstrels," Shenandoah County Photograph Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Document appointing Joseph W. Evans Postmaster of Edinburg Virginia. He was appointed on July 29, 1868. This document was signed by St. John Bull Skinner, acting postmaster general on August 11 1868. Joseph Evans would serve as postmaster in Edinburg until 1889. The post office was located in his home/shoeshop at 100 N. Main St. Edinburg Virginia.
Certificate of Postmaster: Joseph W. Evans Appointed Postmaster, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Scan of the Triplett Trumpeter from May 24, 1943. The Trumpeter was a newspaper produced by the students and staff of Triplett High School in Mt. Jackson Virginia. Four (4) pages total.
Triplett Trumpeteer, May 24, 1943, Pat Shelton Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Conrad Allen Helsley Toms Brook Elementary School Certificate
Scan of an elementary certificate issued to Conrad Allen Helsley for successfully completing the course of study at Toms Brook Elementary School. It was issued on May 31, 1963.
Toms Brook School Yearbooks and Pictures, Town of Toms Brook Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Photograph showing a flooded bridge across the North Fork of the Shenandoah River at Red Banks in Shenandoah County. Three unidentified people are standing in the foreground.
Junior Order United American Mechanics Pamphlet
Pamphlet describing the principles of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Found among the papers of Frank Dinges of Edinburg Virginia.
Junior Order, United American Mechanics, May 17, 1853, Frank Dinges Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Letter from S.D. Crude, resident engineer for the Virginia Department of Highways, to J.W. Garner of the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors. The letter informs Garner and the board that the state department of transportation had received approval to purchase materials to rebuild the bridge crossing the Shenandoah River between Edinburg and Fort Valley.
Bonnie Painter Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Dog tag produced by Frank J. Walters to mark the birth of his daughter Jo An Walters.
Shenandoah County Historical Society Digital Collection
Loaned to the Shenandoah County Library for scanning by Joann Pence at Shenandoah County heritage Day, 2018
Certificate issued to Franklin J. Walters certifying that is has completed a period of training and active service in the United States Navy during World War Two.
Navy Department, United States of America.
Undated photograph showing a groups of girls. Labeled as being at the "school on the hill" in New Market Virginia.
Box 2, Garber Shenandoah County Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Undated photograph showing Walter Boyd driving his auto track that he used as a tractor. Behind the truck is hay rakewith an unidentified individual on board. This photograph is labeled: Granddaddy Walter and his Tractor Picture Boyd taken of our Auto Tractor takes the place of horses They are mowing and a rake on behind it. They plow with it to. it is the Autmobile that papa taken to the fair and he has another one like it that we use for joy riding and going to school Your Neice Lucille
Stickley Family Photographs, Labeled, Undated, Shenandoah County Photograph Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Certificate issued to Franklin J. Walters certifying the decorations, medals, and badges he is entitled to wear to commemorate his service in the Second World War. Signed by H.T. Jones, United States Navy Reserves on June 30 1945.
Certificate of completion for the United States Navy's Seaman First Class Training Course presented to Franklin Joseph Walters on May 22 1944.
Honorable Discharge from the United States Navy issued to Franklin Joseph Walters in October 1945.
Colorized photograph showing the United States Navy Destroyer Charles F. Hughes (DD428) sometime during World War Two. The image was owned by Franklin J. Walters who served aboard the destroyer during the conflict.
Two undated photographs showing an unidentified individual serving as "Santa Claus" for the Shenandoah County Library's annual Christmas holiday program for children. The photographs were taken in the library's original location in the basement of the Crestar Bank in Edinburg.
Photos, Undated, Box 8, Series VI: Photographs, Shenandoah County Library System Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Photograph showing two volunteers stocking shelves at the Edinburg Community Library, ca. 1980. At the time the library was located in the former Irvin Building on what is now Piccadilly Street.
Ed Beazley's Studio, Gainesville Georgia.
Photographs of Sallie Coe Smith and Edinburg Community Library, 1977-2005, Series I: 1911-1989, Shenandoah County Library System Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Photograph showing a group of unidentified volunteers, including one dressed as a clown, registering individuals for the Shenandoah County Library's Summer Reading Program in 2003.
Photograph showing four unidentified children, most likely a family group. The photograph is undated but is marked "Tooley-Myron."
Folder 1.3, Photographs, unlabeled and undated, 3 of 3, Series II: Photographs, Lichliter Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Photograph showing a group of musicians with a drum bearing the name Syncopatin Melody 5 at Massanutten Academy (now Massanutten Military Academy) in Woodstock. The photograph was taken by Hugh Morrison and appears to be in the Academy's Lantz Hall. It is part of a series of band images.
Hugh Morrison Collection, Shenandoah County Historical Society,