Frederick County Co-Operative Farm Bureau, Inc. Check
Recordings & registrations - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of a check from the Frederick County Co-Operative Farm Bureau, Inc. written to Waynesboro Gas & Oil Company. The amount "Thirteen hundred eighty four..." is visible before the image cuts off.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified young man wearing a hat and coat and smiling at the camera.
Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
Military academies - Virginia - Woodstock
An unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet standing in front of a brick building wearing his football uniform.
Anniversaries - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified elderly couple standing together and posed behind a large cake. The man has a mustache and the woman is holding a walking cane. Possibly, this was a wedding anniversary cake.
Same unidentified couple appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 008169 and 023572.
Unidentified woman with glasses and wearing a short-sleeved dress is seated on a bench with an unidentified boy beside her. Probably, this was a mother and her child.
Unidentified man and woman, both wearing glasses. It appears the photographer cut out two separate images and mounted them together here against a mottled background.
Two unidentified women are posed together. One is seated behind the other.
Same unidentified women appear in Morrison Photo number 002799 and 002801.
Profile of an unidentified young woman wearing a fur collared coat and long strand of faux pearls.
Photograph of Elizabeth “Eliza” Clinedinst Crim reading a book. Eliza was also known as “Mother Crim” due to her actions following the Civil War Battle of New Market caring for cadets from the Virginia Military Institute. This picture appeared in The Washington Post and/or a Richmond newspaper in 1920.
Subject was identified in 2002 by Nancy B. Stewart.
Eliza (Clinedinst) Crim appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002800, 004907, 006622, 017464, 022729, 026754, 026755, and 040174.
Portrait photograph of Massanutten Academy Cadet John Jay Laughlin. Laughlin was a member of the class of 1927.
Identified utilizing information provided on Morrison Studio Collection image 018537 and utilizing the 1925 publication "The Massanutten Academy : a School preparing for College, the Universities, and Vocations, with Military Training."
Unidentified young girl holding a ball and standing beside a bench where other toys are visible.
Two unidentified women, one behind the other, are posed together.
Photo of an oval-framed photograph of an unidentified older man, seated with a baby on his lap, while two unidentified young men stand behind him. Probably, this was a family photograph of multiple generations.
Photograph of two Massanutten Academy cadets standing outdoors and wearing their football uniforms. The cadet on the left is Edgar W. Diehl. The cadet on the right is Dudley F. Robinette. They played together on the 1917 Massanutten Academy football team.
Identified in 2024 by library staff utilizing "The Massanutten Academy News" booklets maintained by Massanutten Academy.
Dudley F. Robinette appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 002564 and 002802.
Edgar Diehl appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 002802, 006224, 013697, 013698, 020088, and 020162.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet wearing his school's uniform.
Portrait photograph of Rush W. Boyer (left) with his brother, Lacy Alva Boyer (right), when both were very young. Their parents were George William (1880-1943) and Mary Lacy (Rush) (1885-1966) Boyer, from Woodstock. At least two other siblings died as infants. When Rush W. Boyer registered for the WWII draft, he worked for Holmes & Son, Co. in Washington D.C. He served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946. By 1950, he was in Fauquier County, married to Hedy Clementine (Williams) Boyer, and working as a mail carrier for the U.S. Post Office. Rush re-enlisted in the military and served another two years (1950-1952). His wife died sometime after that and Rush married for the second time in 1961. At that time, he lived in Midland, Virginia, and worked as a Surveyor. His bride was also widowed. She was Rachel Lou Keathley, a secretary born in Sparta, Tennessee. Rush is buried in Culpeper, Virginia. Lacy Alva Boyer graduated from Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock in 1933 and was an Army veteran of World War II. He married Margaret Wallace (Shields) Boyer (1918-2006) and had a son, George W. Boyer. Lacy retired in 1980 as branch manager for Farm Credit. He lived in Woodstock most of his life and, through the years, was a member of Woodstock Presbyterian Church and the Woodstock Rotary Club, where he was president from 1957 to 1958 and received the Paul Harris Fellow Award in 1995. He also served as a board member of Shenandoah Memorial Hospital in Woodstock and Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community.
Identified in 2002 by Charlotte Clinedinst, the subjects' cousin, who recognized them.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rush Boyer appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 003947, 002803, 005123, and 011087.
Lacy Boyer appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002803, 002815, 003947, 005123, 011087, and 030675.
Portrait photograph of Edgar Douglas Newman in his later years.
Born in Shenandoah County, Edgar Newman was the son of Benjamin Pennybacker Newman and Elizabeth (Hickman) Newman. His father was in the business of iron manufacturing. Edgar grew up on his father's farm, tending to horses, sheep, and cattle. He was a 1876 graduate of Virginia Military Institute. In 1877, he began his career as an attorney in the office of Walton and Walton, lawyers in Woodstock. That same year, he married Miss. Mary Ott Walton. The couple had six children, Wilbur L., Edgar, Helen, Harold, Houston, and Douglas. From 1886 to 1898, he served as a judge of the County Court of Shenandoah County. He also served on the board of directors for Massanutten Military Academy at the time of their founding.
Id'd on the margin of the paper copy only.
Additional information and photograph identification confirmation from Find A Grave Entry.
Edgar Douglas Newman appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002542, 008176, 015044, 015046, 020170, 022601, 022606, and 028363.
Unidentified woman with short hair and wearing a fringed shawl.
Unidentified baby propped against pillows on a wicker chair and an unidentified little girl standing nearby. Probably, these were probably siblings.
Unidentified young woman with short hair, seated, and wearing a long strand of faux pearls.
Same subject as in Morrison Photo 008179.
Booker, Helen Isabelle Morrison (1908-1979)
Portrait photograph of Helen (Morrison) Booker as a young woman. She was the daughter of the photographer, Hugh Morrison, Jr. She is photographed from the side or back and is looking to the side, almost in profile.
Identified in 2002 by James Morrison, Jr., the subject's nephew, who recognized her.
Unidentified young woman, seated and wearing a long strand of faux pearls.
Same subject as in Morrison Photo 008178.
Photograph of Alice Mumaw Charles as a young woman. She was the daughter of Lester and Clara Naomi (Dellinger) Mumaw. Her paternal grandfather was George H. Mumaw and her maternal grandfather was Philip W. Dellinger.
Two unidentified women, one seated and a younger one standing behind her with her hands on the other woman's shoulders. Family resemblance indicates these women were related to each other.
Same unidentified women appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 008159 and 008180.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and tie with a pin on his lapel.
Same unidentified man appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002543 and 002807.