Catherine Crider
subject: Crider, Catherine
description: Catherine Crider as a young woman wearing a floral-patterned dress and seated on a bench.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Catherine Crider appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 012158 and 012182.

Boy in a Hat
description: Unidentified young boy seated on a bench and wearing a knit hat that matches his sweater.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Ruth Stokes
subject: Stokes, Ruth
description: Ruth Stokes, as a girl, seated on a bench. Ruth was from Strasburg, the daughter of Carl Stokes, Sr., a barber. She married, and lived in Michigan.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner, who remembered her.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Bobbie Earl Willy, Jr.
subject: Willey, Robert "Bobbie" Earl Jr. (1938-2018)
description: Robert "Bobbie" Earl Willey, Jr. pictured as an infant. Bobbie was from Strasburg, the son of Robert Earl “Skeeter” Willey, Sr. and Miriam Elaine Wolfe “Sis” Willey.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner who thought the photograph "looks like Bobbie Earl".
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Robert "Bob" Earl Willey appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 008305, 008306, 012185, 013184, 014975 and 014983.

Toddler on a Chair
description: Unidentified young child seated on a chair in the studio.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Little Girl on a Chair
description: Unidentified young girl wearing a dress and seated on a chair.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Little Boy on a Chair
description: Unidentified and unhappy young boy seated on the edge of a chair.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Woman With Flower Corsage
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified young woman with short curled hair and wearing a corsage on her dress.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "1938" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Boy on a Chair
description: Unidentified young boy seated on a chair.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Apr 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Woman Wearing Glasses
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with short hair and wearing glasses.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Apr 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Unknown Couple
description: Photo of a photograph of an unidentified man and woman standing together on a bridge. A building is visible in the background with a sign on it that says, "Lei__ Brothers".
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Apr 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Richard "Dick" Campbell, Jr.
subject: Campbell, Richard "Dick" Jr.
description: Portrait photograph of Richard "Dick" Campbell, Jr., as a young man. Dick was from Strasburg. The name, "Campbell", is written on the glass plate.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "July 11, 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner who lived next door to the Campbells in the 1930's.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Anna Mae (Hupp) Richards
subject: Richards, Anna Mae (Hupp) (1920-2005)
description: Portrait photograph of Anna Mae (Hupp) Richards as a young woman. Anna was born in Strasburg, the daughter of David William Hupp and his second wife, Margaret Anne (Hines) Hupp. Her father was a well-known Volunteer Fire Chief in Strasburg. Anna Mae grew up on North Massanutten Street and her father worked as an engineer for the railroad. By 1930, her mother had died. Anna Mae and her younger sister, Irene Elizabeth (1924-2000), lived with their father, paternal grandmother, Amanda, and her father’s cousin, 68-year old Mary E. Hupp. Ten years later, Anna worked as a clerk in a “ten-cent store” and lived with her family on West King Street, still in Strasburg. She married Glenn Ivor Richards (1914-2009) in 1941. He was a radio operator and served in the U.S. Navy. His parents were Ivor Glenn and Pheobe (Evans) Richards from Pennsylvania. Anna Mae and her husband had a daughter, Donna (Richards) Roberts. The couple spent decades together and lived in Houston, Texas, at the time of their deaths. Both are buried there.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner who remembered her father, Dave Hupp, was the fire chief in Strasburg in the 1930's.
contributor: Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Man Wearing Glasses
description: Unidentified man wearing glasses and a tie, is seated on a stool in the studio.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Richard Ambrose
subject: Ambrose, Richard
description: Portrait photograph of Richard Ambrose as a young man wearing a suit and tie. Richard was from Strasburg.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner who remembered when the subject lived in his (Graham Conner's) mother's boarding house in 1940.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

John Horan
subject: Horan, John (1917-1992)
description: Portrait photograph of John Horan as a young man. He was the editor of the Northern Virginia Daily. He was married to Agnes (Miller) Horan and they had a son named John Horan, Jr.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2008 by Danny Hottel.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: John Horan appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 011646 and 012197.

Man in a Suit and Tie
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and tie.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

David J. Crawford
subject: Crawford, David Jameson (1922-1999)
description: Portrait photograph of David Jameson Crawford, originally from Strasburg, as a teenager. David grew up on West King Street, one of five children born to George Gilbert and Anne Preston (White) Crawford. His father was a well-known doctor and worked out of his home, the present-day Strasburg Community Library. David attended Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock. When he registered for the WWII draft, he worked at the American Viscose Plant in Front Royal. He graduated from the University of Virginia’s School of Commerce and School of Medicine. In 1951, while in Charlottesville, he married a student from the School of Nursing, Martha Jean (Morrow) Crawford (1930-1981). She was born in Bramwell, West Virginia, to Edward Earle and Martha Elmira (Wright) Morrow. David began his medical career in Waynesboro in 1957 and continued to practice medicine there until he retired in 1998. He and his wife raised two sons, Edwin M. Crawford and David J. Crawford, III. He and his wife were actively involved in the Augusta County community.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2007 by Graham Conner who went to school with David Crawford.
contributor: Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: David J. Crawford appears in Morrison Studio Collection number 012199 and 014908.

"Henry S. Johnson"
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and tie. The name, "Henry S. Johnson" and the place, "H__las, Va.", are written on the glass plate.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "Oct 22, 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Man With Mustache
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified man with a mustache and collared shirt.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

T.J. Sharitz
subject: Sharitz, Thorold Joseph Brown (1911-1945)
description: Portrait photograph of Thorold Joseph "T.J." Sharitz as a young man wearing a suit and tie. T.J. was from Wythe County, Virginia, but briefly worked as an agriculture teacher at Strasburg High School before World War Two. After the outbreak of the conflict, he enlisted in the US Army. He became a 1st Lieutenant with the 422 Infantry 106 Division in France during WWII. In January 1945 he was captured by the German Army and held at Stalag 13 in Bavaria. He died on April 5 1945 while a prisoner, some reports indicating he was shot while escaping. He is buried in the Lorraine American Cemetery in Lorraine, France. He received a purple heart, World War Two Victory Medal, Prisoner of War Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Army Good Conduct Medal, and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2008 by P.M. Fravel, who had a newspaper clipping about this individual.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Identifier noted this image appears elsewhere in the collection but does not say what number.

Young Man With a Mustache
description: Portrait photograph of an unidentified young man with a mustache and wearing a suit and tie.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Rebecca (Glaize) Porter
subject: Porter, Mary Rebecca (Glaize) (1921-2011)
description: Portrait photograph of Rebecca (Glaize) Porter as a young woman. Rebecca, as she was called, was a registered nurse. She was from Strasburg, the daughter of Walter Tanquary and Ann Susan (Henshaw) Glaize. She married Phillip Sheridan Porter, Jr., born in Missouri, in 1952. He was in the U.S. Navy stationed at the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, Maryland, at the time. Over the years, the couple had at least five children together and lived in Fairfax County for most of their married lives. She is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Strasburg, with her husband.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "April 1940" on box of plates.
contributor: Other photographs of Rebecca (Glaize) Porter were identified in 2006 by Sarah Bagnell.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Rebecca (Glaize) Porter appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 011658, 011659, and 012204.

Shirley (Dellinger) Leake
subject: Leake, Shirley Edith Dellinger (1927-2022)
description: Portrait photograph of Shirley E. (Dellinger) Leake as a young woman. Born in Conicville, she was the daughter of Mantonia and Gertie (Mumaw) Dellinger. In high school, Shirley spent her summers working at the peach factory in Timberville and the tomato factory in Woodstock. Shirley graduated from Triplett High School in 1945. In 1946, Shirley graduated from the Pauline's School of Cosmetology in Harrisonburg. For 6 years, she operated a salon in Edinburg and later, in her home, for many years. She married Everette William Leake in 1949. The couple raised a daughter, Sharon (Leake) Kibler, and a son, Gary William Leake. Shirley also worked for Bowman's Applesauce Plant in Mount Jackson, Windsor Knit in Edinburg, and then retired from Aileen after 28 years. In addition, she was a Women's Auxiliary member of the Edinburg VFW Post #2447, The Woodstock American Legion Post #199, and a Lifetime member of the Women's Guild at Christ Church United Church of Christ, Conicville.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "July 1949" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2001 by Dick Delford Bowman who was a distant relative of the subject.
contributor: Biographical information was extracted from her obituary on the Find-A-Grave website.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Shirley (Dellinger) Leake appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001431, 012205, 012206, 013308, 040357, and 040363.

Shirley (Dellinger) Leake
subject: Leake, Shirley Edith Dellinger (1927-2022)
description: Portrait photograph of Shirley E. (Dellinger) Leake as a young woman and wearing glasses. Born in Conicville, she was the daughter of Mantonia and Gertie (Mumaw) Dellinger. In high school, Shirley spent her summers working at the peach factory in Timberville and the tomato factory in Woodstock. Shirley graduated from Triplett High School in 1945. In 1946, Shirley graduated from the Pauline's School of Cosmetology in Harrisonburg. She married Everette William Leake in 1949. The couple raised a daughter, Sharon (Leake) Kibler, and a son, Gary William Leake. For 6 years, she operated a salon in Edinburg and later in her home for many years. Shirley also worked for Bowman's Applesauce Plant in Mount Jackson, Windsor Knit in Edinburg, and then retired from Aileen after 28 years. In addition, she was a Women's Auxiliary member of the Edinburg VFW Post #2447, The Woodstock American Legion Post #199, and a Lifetime member of the Women's Guild at Christ Church United Church of Christ, Conicville.
creator: Morrison Studio
source: Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
publisher: Shenandoah County Library
date: Labelled "July 1949" on box of plates.
contributor: Identified in 2001 by Dick Delford Bowman, a distant relative of the subject.
contributor: Biographical information was extracted from her obituary on the Find-A-Grave website.
rights: IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
relation: Shirley (Dellinger) Leake appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001431, 012205, 012206, 013308, 040357, and 040363.