Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with glasses wearing a faux pearl necklace and a plaid jacket.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "June 1945".
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and tie.
Unidentified young man, possibly teen-aged, is wearing a striped suit and tie with a pin on his lapel. He is posed, seated, beside a young unidentified boy wearing short pants and a short-sleeved collared shirt.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with shoulder-length hair who is seated on a chair with her arm resting along the back of it.
Photo of an oval-framed portrait photograph of an unidentified man and woman posed together. The man is wearing a suit and tie with a starched collar and the woman has her hair styled upwards and is wearing a dress with a high collar trimmed with lace. Probably, this was a husband and wife.
Unidentified young boy is standing by a bench and wearing a cap with his outfit.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified young woman with a flower in her hair and wearing a faux pearl necklace.
Photo of a framed photograph of an unidentified older man with a beard and mustache, posed seated in a chair.
Photo of a photograph of a 2-story home with a covered front porch, yard and perimeter fence. The outline of a mountain is visible in the distance.
Recording & registration - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of the "Certificate of Marriage" for Robert Lee "Havec" (or something close to that) and Dorothea Elaine Rudolph, who were married in Washington D.C. on February 23, 1935.
Lumber industry - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Trucks - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified workers posed on a truck that has a portion of a large, felled tree loaded and chained on it. A house with a 2-story covered front porch is visible behind the men.
Automobiles - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of an unused vehicle parked in a yard and missing doors, seats, and other parts. A picket fence and small garage is visible behind it.
ca 1932 based on the date visible on the license plate of the vehicle in the garage.
Unidentified small church with a bell and steeple. An unidentified young girl is looking at it and is visible in the foreground.
Group of unidentified elementary-aged, school children shown on the steps of of the Middletown School with their teacher.
Large group of unidentified people posed in three rows outdoors. Most are women with one man seated in the middle of the front row and one child posed on the lap of one of the women, also in the front row.
Same unidentified group of people appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 022054, 022055 and 022056.
Large group of unidentified people, mostly women, are assembled on the steps of what appears to be a church. There is one man in the front center and one child being held by one of the women.
Large group of unidentified people, mostly women, is posed together outdoors. A sidewalk runs in front of the group and there are trees and a building behind them. One man is seated in the front center and one child is seated on the lap of a woman in the front row.
Williams, Samuel Clayton Sr. (1923-2001)
Photograph of Samuel Clayton Williams, Sr., as a young boy standing in the studio. Samuel was born and raised in Lexington, Virginia, the son of Clayton Eppes Williams (1890-1968) and Willie Joe (Tompkins) (1889-1965) Williams. His father was the Dean of Washington and Lee University’s School of Law. After graduating from Lexington High School, Samuel’s college studies at Washington and Lee were interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. Samuel enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served with the 15th Air Force, known as the Black Panthers. He was based in Italy as a B-24 bomber pilot. After the war, he married Andree Louise (Wood) (1924-2013) in 1944, and moved to Baltimore a few years later. There, he started a contracting business that built homes. He also attended night school earning his bachelor’s degree from John Hopkins University and a master’s degree in education from Towson State College. Samuel got out of the building business and went to work as an educator at the St. Paul’s School for Boys in Baltimore County, in 1957. He stayed for 28 years before retiring in 1985. Over the course of his time there, he served as assistant headmaster, head of the Upper School and chairman of the math department. He was head guidance counselor when he retired. He and his wife, also a teacher, spent many years living in Bethany Beach after Samuel retired. His wife, Andree Louise (Wood) Williams, was originally from Fort Thomas, Kentucky. They had three children together: S. Clayton Williams, Jr., Susan (Williams) Copper, and Andree (Williams) Wright.
The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Dec 1927".
Identified in 2010 by Sarah (Williams) Nelson, a cousin of the subject. She had the same photograph at home. She also noted that Samuel was the grandson of William T. Williams.
Biographical information was extracted primarily from the subject's detailed obituary published in the Baltimore Sun Newspaper on June 10, 2001, page 16B.
Samuel Clayton Williams, Sr. appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 008120, 022057 and 022068.
Unidentified woman with short curly hair is seated and looking to the side, almost in profile.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified young woman with short hair.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with short hair and wearing earrings and faux pearls with her dress.
Unidentified young woman with short wavy hair is seated on a bench with her hands in her lap.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified young woman with short hair and wearing a necklace and a corsage pinned to her dress.
Unidentified young child is seated on a pillow on a bench.