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R.A. Wilkins' Sunnyside Farm

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Dublin Core

Title

R.A. Wilkins' Sunnyside Farm

Subject

Farming - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Farms - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Cows - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Wilkins, Rufus Albert (1876-1958)
Wilkins, Emeline Helsley (1878-1934)

Description

Photograph of Rufus Albert (R.A.) Wilkins, his wife Emeline Helsley Wilkins, and other family members with a cow and her twin calves in the foreground at “Sunnyside Farm” dated July 20, 1910.

Rufus Albert Wilkins owned and worked this farm on what became Moose Road north east of Woodstock Virginia.

Rufus married Emeline Helsley Wilkins (1878-1934) in 1900. The couple had nine children. Two of his sons, Willie and Ray, had a milk route in Woodstock that used the Sunnyside Farms name.

The identities of the woman on the right of the image and the names of the children shown are unknown.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

July 10, 1910

Contributor

Identified by John Anderson.
Additional information obtained from "Pages from Newspaper Past," Free Press, September 25, 2015.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Rufus Wilkins appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 004852, 001127, and 011177.

Identifier

004852

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “R.A. Wilkins' Sunnyside Farm,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 24, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/34601.

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