Shenandoah County Library Archives

Shenandoah County Library Digital Archives

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Postcard with a picture of the principal and faculty at the former Woodstock High School on Court Street.

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Photograph showing Frances Jenkins (1884-1980), teacher at Strasburg High School. The picture was taken sometime around 1920, It appears in Pauline Lichliter's high school scrapbook.

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Photograph of Josephine Miller (Lynn) and Marie Boyer at Harrisonburg State Teacher's College sometime around 1930. Both graduated and became teachers in Shenandoah County.

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Document announcing public sale for the personal property of William C. Pettit, deceased. Pettit was a teacher who had taught for a period in Hardy County and then in Shenandoah County where he died sometime in the early 1850s.

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Portrait of Clayton I. Spessard wearing a suit and tie and high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and History.

This appears to be a…

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Photo of an oval framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard in a suit and tie with a high, starched collar.

Clayton was a teacher at Massanutten Academy when J. Silor Garrison was the Headmaster there. He taught Ancient Languages and…

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Photo of an oval-framed photograph of Clayton I. Spessard.

Clayton was a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Academy at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is a photographic copy of an earlier Morrison Studio image.

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Photo of four separate images, two of which are the same. One image is superimposed over another.

The image of the man has been identified as Clayton I. Spessard, a teacher of Ancient Languages and History at Massanutten Military Academy at the…

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Portrait of Cecil M. Newcorn wearing a 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…

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Portrait of Judith Nelson Gaines Adams as a young woman. She taught school in Shenandoah County after college.

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Group of unidentified SVA students and teachers assembled on the steps of one of the campus buildings.

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Group photograph of the students and teachers of the class of 1919 at the St. Luke Graded School.

All have been identified as follows:

Front row, (l to r): Robert Walker, Chester Riffey, Joe Wetzel, Theodore Markley, Dorothy Shipp, James…

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Portrait 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)…

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Portrait of Mary Bair Bowman as a young woman.

Mary was the only child of Franklin Schmucker (1871-1963) and Sarah Fletcher (Supinger) (1870-1953) Bowman.

She was a teacher in Shenandoah County for many years. According to her mother's…

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Margaret (Grabill) Jones with her hair pulled back and wearing a long string of faux pearls.

Margaret was a descendant of Captain Grabill, the first Superintendent of Schools in Shenandoah County. She taught English at both Woodstock and New…

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth wearing a suit and tie. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a Principal.

Milton married…

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Portrait of Eleonor Hottel Balthis, who never married and became a teacher.

Born in Strasburg, she was the oldest child of Robert Fleming (1876-1944) and Hattie May (Hottel) (1882-1922) Balthis.

Interestingly, her civil birth was recorded…

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Portrait of Durwood Myers who worked as an agricultural teacher at Woodstock High School and later, at Central High School.

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Portrait of Xina Holmes Durette. She was a newspaper reporter, teacher, and school principal in Luray, Virginia.

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Portrait of Professor Milton Hollingsworth as a young man wearing a suit and tie.

He was the son of Charles Edwin and Fannie (Coffelt) Hollingsworth and had a long career in high school level education; first as a teacher, later as a…

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Group of unidentified students and teachers posed as a group in front of Shenandoah Valley Academy's original "Main Dormitory."

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Group of unidentified students and teachers at the Strasburg School.

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Unidentified group of teachers serving the Shenandoah Valley Academy students in the 1930s. Established in 1908, the Seventh-Day Adventist coeducational boarding school for high school students still exists and is located in New Market, Virginia.
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