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Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening

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Title

Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening

Subject

Stores - Virginia - Woodstock
Woodstock (Va)
Garman, Donald Herbert (1917-1989)
Garman, Louise (Lambert) (1926- 2024)

Description

Photograph showing ribbon cutting and dedication of the Ben Franklin Store in Woodstock.

Identified are Louise Garman (center, with scissors) and her husband, Donald Garman (beside her). The couple owned the Ben Franklin Store in Woodstock for many years.

Woodstock's Ben Franklin Store opened in 1936. It moved to this location in the Woodstock Shopping Center on the north end of town in the 1960s after originally being located in downtown Woodstock. It closed in 2010.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Undated

Contributor

No ID form. Names were written in the margin of the paper copy.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Same dedication event appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 029806 and 029826.
Louise (Lambert) Garman appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 007033, 029256, 029630, 029806 and 029826.
Donald H. Garman appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 028991, 029806, 029826, 029908, 029450, and 029457.

Identifier

029826

Original Format

Film Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/73142.

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