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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an unidentified orchard.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing Cloverbloom Frying Chicken. This item was displayed during the opening ceremony for the Shen-Valley Meat Packers Inc. plant in Timberville Virginia. The plant opened in late 1949.

Photograph showing two boys on a Southern Railway Express Company loading wagon filled with chickens.

The photograph is dated October 1914. The boys are unidentified. Most likely the image was taken at the Toms Brook railroad depot, but that…

Photographs of business displays at the Shenandoah County Fair. Those pictured include local appliance stores and farm implement companies. They originated with Charles Bauserman but were most likely taken by William Garber of Mt. Jackson Virginia.

This picture shows a paper milk-bottle cap produced by Woodstock Virginia’s Ford-Cooley Dairy. The dairy was located just south of Woodstock near Narrow Passage. It operated from sometime in the 1930s until around 1960.

It would have been used…

Postcard showing individuals loading hay onto horse drawn wagons near New Market Virginia.

The card is undated and has been colorized.

Postcard showing B.E. Nelson's wheat field.

Postcard showing a crew of men with a team of horses and mules seeding farmland.

The card's caption identifies the farm as "Mount Airy (Strathmore)" which is located south of the Town of Mount Jackson along what is now US Route 11 and the North…

Postcard with a picture of the former Middletown School building when it was used as an Agricultural High School.