Soldiers - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photo of a photograph of an unidentified man wearing a U.S. Army uniform and standing outdoors. WWII-era trucks are visible behind him.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
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Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with short hair. She was photographed from the side with her face turned towards the camera.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and striped tie.
Portrait photograph of Derwood Myers who worked as an agricultural teacher at Woodstock High School and later, at Central High School.
Identified in 2002 as "Durwood" Myers by James Morrison Jr.
Spelling of first name corrected to "Derwood" by Becky Lytton in 2024.
Portrait photograph of Gertrude Sager as a young woman wearing a lace collar and pearls.
Identified in 2002 by Virginia Rutz, who knew the subject.
Gertrude Sager appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001490 and 002910.
Photo of a photograph of a group of unidentified people with a woman in the center. A white outline has been painted around her as though the photographer was planning to make an individual photo of her later.
Photograph of an unidentified young girl standing beside a bench and wearing a dress.
Same unidentified girl appears in Morrison Photos 002643, 002688, and 002912.
Photograph of an unidentified young boy seated on a bench and looking towards the camera.
Portrait photograph of Mary Hutchison as a young woman wearing a pin on the front of her dress.
Recognized in 2003 by Mildred Stepp, who recalled the subject was her Aunt's daughter-in-law.
Photo of an oval-framed portrait photograph, of Marvin Bailey as a young man. His wife was Stella Cullers, from Fort Valley.
Identified in 2002 by Margie (Powell) Lichliter. Subject married her cousin. She has seen this image at their home.
Marvin Bailey appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002915 and 014636.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified man with glasses and a mustache. He is wearing a suit and tie. The name, "R.L. Ranson" and "Harrisonburg 1945" is written on the glass plate of this image.
Sailors - American - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified young man wearing a U.S. Navy uniform.
Miller, Joanna F. "Joan" Sherman (1916-1992)
Portrait photograph of Joanna "Joan" (Sherman) Miller as a young woman with a flower in her hair. Her husband was Marshall Miller.
Recognized in 2002 by Charlotte Clinedinst.
Joanna "Joan" Sherman Miller appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 002918, 002955, 003009, 006806, 007064, 007091 and 013620
Photograph of an unidentified man and woman seated beside each other. A studio backdrop is visible behind them. Both are seated with their hands in their laps. Probably, this was a husband and wife.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with a bow in her short, dark hair.
Portrait photograph of Louis E. Morrison, one of the many children born to the photographer, Hugh Morrison, Jr. Louis took over the photography studio in 1950.
Identified in 2002 by subject's son, James E. Morrison, Jr.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with short styled hair and wearing ruffles on the ends of her short sleeves. She also has a flowered corsage on the front of her dress.
Same unidentified woman appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002922 and 015774.
Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified man wearing a suit and striped tie. He has three pens sticking out of his breast pocket.
Portrait photograph of Stella May (Cullers) Bailey as a young woman. She married Marvin Bailey.
Identified in 2002 by Margie (Powell) Lichliter, subject's first cousin.
Stella May (Cullers) Bailey appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002924 and 014636.
Stella's husband, Marvin Bailey, appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002915 and 014636.
Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified soldier wearing his U.S. Army uniform.
Photo of a blurry portrait photograph of an unidentified man.
Photo of a portrait photograph of Arthur Alexander Biller wearing his U.S. Navy uniform. Mr. Billers was originally from Hepners, Virginia. His parents were Louis Franklin and Annie Elizabeth (Biller) Biller. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II and then owned and operated Exxon Service Stations throughout the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. He married Betty Marie (Arehart) Biller (1932-2013). Together, they raised four children, mostly in Maryland. He spent his later years in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Identified in 2002 by Steve Pence, subject's cousin, who has a similar image that he got from the newspaper.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public sources including his obituary.
Portrait photograph of Janet (Raynor) See as a young woman. Janet was born in Maurertown, the daughter of John Festus (1900-1986) and Brucie Goldia (Finks) (1902-1965) Raynor. She married Calvin Coolidge See (1924-2013) in Toms Brook, in August 1947. Calvin was born in Rawlings, Maryland, the son of Wardney Vance and Zella Mae See. He worked as a mechanic. Janet was a member of Maurertown Brethren Church. She and her husband had a daughter, Carolyn, and spent their lives in Shenandoah County. Both are buried in Woodstock.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Janet (Raynor) See appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002928, 003117 and 003260.
Chrystalline, Dorothy May Seibert (1927-2001)
Portrait photograph of Dorothy May (Seibert) Chrystalline as a young woman with shoulder-length curly hair. She was the daughter of Charles Franklin and Gladys Vernon (Smoot) Seibert. Her siblings were Douglas Seibert, Gordon Seibert and Isabell (Seibert) Stoneburner. She married John Phillip Lambert in 1950. About seven years after he died, she married for the second time to Daniel Leonard Chrystalline (1927-2002) in 1996.
Identified in 2002 by Elizabeth L. Smith, who lived near the subject's family.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public sources.
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait photograph of a young, unidentified, African American man with a mustache and wearing a suit and tie.