Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Unidentified African American woman standing in the studio and wearing her Sunday best clothes, including a fur hand muff decorated with a floral corsage.

Unidentified African American woman seated in a wicker chair and wearing a locket over her short-sleeved blouse and skirt.

Unidentified African American woman wearing glasses and seated in a wicker chair.

Damaged portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a belted dress with a high collar.

Unidentified African American woman standing beside a wicker chair and wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

Unidentified young African American girl seated on a bench with a bow in her hair.

Portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing her hair pulled back and a necklace.

Photograph of an unidentified African American woman.

Theopelus A. Thomas, Clergy at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia during the 1930s.

Reverend Thomas was a pastor at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born around 1883 and immigrated to…

Photograph of Lewis McAfee, seated and holding an open book, with his wife, Elsie (Pye) McAfee sitting beside him.

Lewis McAfee was born in Shenandoah County to Arthur and Minnie McAfee. He grew up on Spring Street in Woodstock. His father was a…

Photograph of Lelia Nellings Bird.

Portrait of William H. Polk, who worked as a minister of Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia.

Photograph of an unidentified African American woman in a nurse's uniform,

Photograph of the children of Reverend Theopelus A. Thomas and his wife Ruth E. Thomas.

Reverend Thomas served as a Pastor of the Mt. Zion ME Church in Woodstock.

His children at the time of this image were Ruth E., Doris S., Maude V, and…

Photograph of the Reverend T. A. Thomas and his family standing on the porch of a house sometime before 1930.

Reverend Thomas was a pastor at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born around 1883 and…

Photograph of an unidentified African American woman, seated, with two unidentified white children posed on her lap.

Unidentified African American woman wearing a hat and winter clothing.

Unidentified young African American woman wearing glasses and a long-sleeved, mid-calf length dress.

Photograph of educator Genevieve McClain (center) standing with four of her students. They are:

Front row, left: Betty Steptoe
Front row, right: Frances Cyrus Corley
Rear row, left: Perry Dyer
Rear row, right: Jean Dyer

These students are…

Portrait photograph of an unidentified African American woman wearing ball earrings and ruffled short sleeves.

Unidentified African American woman standing beside a chair and wearing a stylish hat.

Portrait photograph of two unidentified young men, one white and the other African American. Both men are wearing suits and smiling.

Photo of an oval-framed photograph of an unidentified African American woman wearing a pin at her neck and a dress with a high collar.

Earl grew up in Woodstock and lived with his grandmother, Lizzie Dyer, and his mother, Mary Dyer (1908-1947), for several years on W. Spring Street. His father was Frank Brock.

Earl was 18 years old when he registered for the WWII draft. At the…

Photograph of Josephine Benchoff and an unidentified African American girl in a wagon.
Josephine Benchoff was born in 1916 and paralyzed at a young age. She died May 11 1938. Her father was Howard Benchoff, Superintendent of Massanutten Military…
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