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Photograph showing Agnes Crabill and Effie Stickley. It is labeled "taken at home in summer of 1904 or 1905."

Unidentified agricultural building with a row of high windows along the top left and a door leading into it. Perhaps this portion of the building was used to house chickens.

Another door leads into the right side of the building.

At the far…

On April 13, 1945 Corporal Aiden Zirkle died on Okinawa. He was a member of Company E, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment, First Marine Division. Reports indicate he succumbed to wounds obtained while leading his unit against an entrenched machine…

Postcard showing an aerial view of Madison College (now James Madison University) in Harrisonburg Virginia

Postcard showing an aerial view of Sperryville VA

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In October of 1913 Frank J. Terrill brought his Curtis Biplane to the Shenandoah County Fairgrounds as part of the fair’s festivities.
This is the first recorded time an airplane passed through Shenandoah County and would have been most local’s…

This is a wedding photograph of Alfred Lavinder and Dorothy Lantz.

Born in Roanoke, Al was the son of Wiley W. and Annie L. Lavinder. He served in the US Army, 29th Infantry Division as a Sergeant during WWll.

On D-Day, June 6,1944, Al landed…

Portrait photograph of Lieutenant Alan Richardson wearing his U.S. Army Infantry Reserves uniform.

Lt. Richardson served as the Commandant of Cadets at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) in Woodstock, Virginia.

This photograph appeared in the…

Photograph of an advertisement for an alarm clock made by Westclox called the "Big Ben".

Photograph of the Bowers family posed together outside with a dog.

Identified are:
Back row (l to r): Vallie E. (Bowers) Tevault, her mother and father, Ida Pearl (Good) Bowers and Albert Cornelius Bowers.

Front row (l to r): Treascea Helen…

Photograph of Albert O. Bowers (left) and Gale Bowers (right).

The two were children of Ernest Giblert Bowers and Effie Heltzel Bowers.

The name, "Ernest Bowers", is written on the glass negative of this image.

Portrait photograph of Albert Sydney Kaplan as a cadet attending Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was located on…

Photo of a photograph of Albert Kaplan (1921-2000) as a young man. He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. Albert had two brothers, Julius and Berton. The family…

Photo of a photograph of Albert Kaplan as a young man.

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was located on the corner of Fort and King Streets but burned…

Photograph of Albert Steele from the book "Service Record World War I and II, Woodstock and Vicinity."

Portrait photograph of Albert Sydney Kaplan wearing his Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) school uniform.

He was the son of Reuben Lazarus and Jennie G. (Roseman) Kaplan. His father ran a dry goods store for many years in Strasburg. It was…

Portrait of Hazel Bertha Helsley and her husband Albert Wilkins.

Hazel was the youngest chlid of George W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Lutz) Helsley. She was given to Jacob and Virginia Miller as a two year old and raised by them.

Portrait photograph of Alberta Byrd (Tolliver) Nickens, of Woodstock, as a young woman.

Her parents were Theodore and Mabel (Byrd) Tolliver of Woodstock. In the 1930 census, she was listed as a 4-year old boy, “Albert”, the youngest of four…

Portrait photograph of Alden Gochenour Richman as a young man in his U.S. Navy Uniform.

His wife was Bertha M. Winkler (1924-2007). They are buried together in Alonzaville, west of Maurertown.

Unidentified baby looking alert and posed on a studio chair that has been covered with cloth as a backdrop.

Portrait of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town Road in the…

Portrait of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town Road in the…

Portrait photograph of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town…

Photograph of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town Road in the…
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