MMA Cadet
subject: Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
subject: Cadets - Virginia - Woodstock
description: Unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet standing in his school uniform.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Same subject as in Morrison Studio Collection number 008725.

Family Photograph
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified couple with a young child between them. Probably, this was a family photograph.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Three Children
description: Three unidentified children, one barefoot, arranged by a wicker chair. Part of an older unidentified woman is also visible on the left side. Probably, these were siblings.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Young MMA Cadet
subject: Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
subject: Cadets - Virginia - Woodstock
description: Unidentified young Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet wearing his school uniform, hat, and cape.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Unknown Man
description: Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified young man.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Charles Franklin Plauger
subject: Plauger, Charles Franklin (1877-1953)
description: Portrait photograph of Charles Franklin Plauger, of Fort Valley. He was the son of Joseph F. and Catherine (Peters) Plauger. His wife was Grace Mae Munch. Together, they raised seven children.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
contributor: Identified in 2002 by Jeanette C. and George H. Ritenour, who had the same photograph at their home.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

"Shaw"
description: Unidentified young child propped against a pillow on a chair. The name, "Shaw", is written on the glass plate negative of this image.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Man in a Double-Breasted Suit
description: Photograph of an unidentified man seated on a stool and wearing a double-breasted suit and polka-dotted tie.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

"Lambert"
description: Unidentified man, seated, with an unidentified woman standing beside him. Probably, this was a husband and wife. The name, "Lambert", is written on the glass plate negative.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Two People Outdoors
description: Unidentified young man and woman are seated together outdoors. The woman is wearing a large hat and a wire fence is visible behind them.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Two Little Girls
description: Two unidentified young girls; one standing on a wicker chair and the other one standing on the floor beside her. Probably, these were siblings.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Man in a Suit
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and print tie.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Cecil Newcorn
subject: Newcorn, Cecil Miller (1906-1970)
subject: Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
description: Portrait photograph of Cecil M. Newcorn wearing a U.S. Army uniform. He is best remembered for the years he served as Bandmaster at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in the late 1930’s. Cecil was from Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of William (1868-1946) Newcorn and his second wife, Mamie (Miller) (1878-1942) Newcorn. His father was a lawyer and judge. His mother’s obituary noted she was “one of the outstanding women in Jewish life in Plainfield and New Jersey”. Cecil was a 1924 graduate of MMA. After that, he spent a few years working aboard passenger ships, shuttling back and forth from Europe to New York City. Several Crew lists from the 1927-1929 timeframe include him as Assistant Steward, then Clerk, and finally, Assistant Purser. His first wife was Florence Lustig, the daughter of wealthy parents from Manhattan, New York. They married in 1932. At that time, he was a manager for a vegetable oil company, Palm Products Syndicate, in New York. The marriage did not last. By 1935, Cecil lived in Dallas, Texas. In 1937, Cecil accepted a teaching position at MMA. He replaced a well-loved music teacher, Fred Spiker, who had died. A history of MMA written by Robert Mallory Klein in 2001, said this about Cecil Newcorn’s contribution: “Under … the leadership of Cecil Newcorn, the band raised its performance to a still higher plateau than it had earlier enjoyed.” In 1938, not long after Cecil came to Woodstock, he married Georgia Marie Boyer (1917-2004), born in Woodstock. She was the daughter of Clarence L. and Bashie (Frye) Boyer. In 1940, Cecil Newcorn lived with his wife’s widowed mother and family on West Spring Street in Woodstock. Under Newcorn’s leadership, the MMA band gave bi-weekly concerts on the Woodstock Courthouse Square, weekend events at the academy, and various local churches, clubs and organizations. They also gave public concerts as radio broadcasts and regularly did road trips to perform at high schools in Pennsylvania and as far away as Ohio. Finall…
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
contributor: Biographical information was compiled from public records.
contributor: Information about the MMA band's achievements was extracted from "An American Century - The History of Massanutten Military Academy" by Robert Mallory Klein, 2001, page 90.
contributor: Identified by library staff based on other images of him in the Morrison Studio Collection.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Cecil Newcorn appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001414, 002346, 003410, 007854, 008152, 009346, 020092, 020106, 020118, 020122, 020132, 020159, 020316, 040225, 040226, 040228, and 040325.

MMA Cadet
subject: Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
subject: Cadets - Virginia - Woodstock
description: Unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet standing in the studio and wearing his school uniform.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Jessie Clayton Wine
subject: Wine, Jessie Clayton (1915-2016)
description: Photo of a portrait photograph of Jessie Clayton Wine wearing glasses and a suit and tie. Of his many accomplishments, he may be best remembered for the handcrafted dogwood canes he made and gave away to friends. He was born in Forestville, son of Jacob David and Kitty Sipe (Huffman) Wine. His wife was Naomi (Zirkle) Wine and he had a daughter, Mary Sue (Wine) France. He worked for the army during World War II at Fort Belvoir as a manager of the tailor shop and dry cleaners. He entered the insurance business in 1945 and worked in Alexandria, Winchester, Mount Jackson, and Woodstock, where he retired in 1975 from Interstate Life and Accident Insurance Co. after 30 years of service. In 1966, he became a charter member of the Woodstock Rescue Squad, where he drove an ambulance for 10 years and served as treasurer for 16 years. He also had a vineyard and was a professional grape pruner going to as many as 60 places per year from Harrisonburg to Winchester.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
contributor: Identified in 2002 by Virginia Rutz, who remembered that the subject was a Freemason along with her husband.
contributor: Additional biographical information was compiled from public records, including his obituary posted on the Find-A-Grave website.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Jessie Clayton Wine appears in Morrison Studio Collection. numbers 003411 and 004975.

Man and Children Outdoors
description: Photo of a photograph of an unidentified man holding a baby outside. An unidentified little girl is standing in front of him and a wood fence is visible behind them.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Imogene Santmiers
subject: Santmiers, Imogene Wilson (1901- )
description: Photo of a framed photograph of Imogene Santmiers, as a young girl with curls in her hair. She was the daughter of George Robert (a farmer in Hamburg) and Mary Elizabeth "Mayme" (Bowman) Santmiers. She had a brother named Elwood.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: ca 1900-1902 per the identifier.
contributor: Identified in 2008 by Nancye L. Bowman, who was a cousin of the subject. She had the same picture at home.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Curly-Haired Woman
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with curly hair and a pin on her dress.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Working Man
description: Photo of a photograph of an unidentified man standing in the doorway of a brick building and holding a shovel.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Young Woman
description: Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified woman, possibly teen-aged, with a bow in her hair.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

"Howard Miller"
description: Unidentified man, seated, and holding a young child on his lap. The name, "Howard Miller", is written on the glass plate negative of this image.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

MMA Cadet
subject: Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
subject: Cadets - Virginia - Woodstock
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet wearing his school uniform.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Linden Alton Fravel
subject: Fravel, Linden Alton (1919-1971)
description: Linden Alton Fravel at four years old. He is standing beside a toy bird in a cage. Linden was the son of William Dallas Fravel (1888-1962), of Woodstock, and Olive Catherine (Stultz) Fravel (1889-1982). Linden had finished 2 years of college when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943. He became an aviation cadet and completed primary and basic pilot training before becoming an aerial gunner in B-24 Liberators. Linden served in the 15th Air Force, 459th Bomb Group, 756th Bomb Squadron in Italy during his WWII service. After the war, he married Mary Jane (Haislip) Fravel (1924-2018) in 1948. She was born in Salem, Virginia, and worked as a secretary for Lewis-Gale Hospital there when they married. Her parents were Walter Armstrong and Mary Leone (Johnston) Haislip. The couple lived in the Stephens City area of Frederick County for much of their married lives. Linden operated "Fravel's Plant and Fish Garden" as a nurseryman in his later years.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: 1923 according to the identifier.
date: Labelled "Dec 1924" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2006 by the subject's son, P.M. Fravel, of Stephens City.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Linden Alton Fravel appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 000343, 003291, 006229, 006230, 008721, 011230, 011540, 019152, and 025470.

Young Man
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified young man wearing a suit jacket, vest and tie with a pin on his lapel.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Young Woman in Glasses
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified young woman wearing glasses and turned to the side, almost in profile.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Undated
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED