Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of the commercial building located at the intersection of Main and Court Streets in Woodstock Virginia.

At the time of the photograph, ca. 1920, it was home to T. Glenn Locke's Store.

The building still stands as of 2025.

Photograph showing a group of musicians with a drum bearing the name Syncopatin Melody 5 at Massanutten Academy (now Massanutten Military Academy) in Woodstock. The photograph was taken by Hugh Morrison and appears to be in the Academy's Lantz Hall.…

1974 photograph of Sylvia Zipperian, a resident of Shenandoah County Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing Sylvia Sheets of New Market in her wedding dress. She married Joe Moore Jr.

Portrait of Sylvia Powell Lemley as a young woman.

Her parents were Kemper Clay (1896-1938) and Zola Eugenia (Munch) (Youngblood) (1900-1978) Powell, of Fort Valley. She married Wallace G. Lemley Jr.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Sylvia Lee (Shoemaker) Scott as a young woman.

Sylvia was born in West Virginia, the daughter of Oscar Clarence and Fannie Lee (Helmick) Shoemaker.

She graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School…

Photograph of the form used to honorably discharge Private Sylvester A. Polk of Conicville, Virginia. He was born on July 1, 1920, and served in the U.S. Army in both Normandy and the Ardennes during WWII.

Photograph of the certificate presented to Private Sylvester A. Polk, who served in Company C of the 121st Engineer Combat Battalion during WWII. Certificate was presented at the separation center of Ft. Meade, Maryland in January 1946.

Photo of an older photograph of Sylvanus and Virginia (Showman) Mumaw with six of their children. Another child of theirs, William H. Mumaw, died in 1879, only 2 years old, and well before this photograph was taken.

Identified (l to r) are:…

Typed and notarized letter from "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith", addressed to "Whom it may Concern". The short note says:

"This is to certify that Louise Smith, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith. And that the said Louise Smith was born on…

Postcard with a picture of a swinging bridge across Stony Creek near Edinburg Virginia.

Postcard showing the "swimming pool" at Camp Strawderman, a girls camp located west of Edinburg Virginia.

Postcard with an image of the swimming pool at Camp Strawderman which is an all girls camp located near Columbia Furnace in Shenandoah County Virginia.

Photograph of the swimming pool that once existed on the grounds of Shrinemont, in Orkney Springs, Virginia.

Unidentified people are standing or sitting on the far end of the long narrow pool.

Postcard showing the swimming pool at Shrine Mont located in Orkney Springs Virginia.

Snapshot photograph showing seven (7) girls swimming at Camp Strawderman.

Presumably they are attendees of the private girls camp which is located southwest of Columbia Furnace Virginia. They are swimming in Stony Creek which flows through the…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing a group of boys swimming in the Shenandoah River at Camp Lupton just east of Woodstock. The camp site was owned and operated by Massanutten Military Academy during the mid and late 20th century.

Photograph showing an unidentified group of men and women swimming in the Shenandoah River at Red Banks, just north of Mt. Jackson.

Undated photograph of two women and two men.

The reverse of the image is labeled "R.W. Sweeney, Mrs. Sweeney, Mr. and Mrs. Hottle, sister and brother-in-law of RW Sweeney"

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Photo of two separate photographs of the four daughters born to Marion Swisher Swartz, Jr. and Regina Jane (Golladay) Swartz.

Identified are (l tor):

Seated: Nanette (Swartz) Langhorne and Caroline M. (Swartz) Lowman

Standing: Laura (Swartz)…

Photograph of James Eldred Swartz with his wife, Virginia Ruth (Hornsby) and his young daughter, Ida Sue.

J. Eldred Swartz was the son of Charles Franklin and Ida Belle (Coffman) Swartz from the southern end of Shenandoah County. He graduated from…

Portrait photograph of the "Swartz Family."

Pictured are Marion Strickler Swartz, Altha Marian Swartz, and their two children Marion Swisher "Junior" Swartz Jr., and Sarah Elizabeth Swartz Walker.

Digital image showing the "Adopt A Highway" sign featuring the Shenandoah Valley Gay & Lesbian Association.

Group of nine unidentified students from Shenandoah Valley Academy posed in two rows outside. An unidentified teacher also appears standing in the back row, third from the right.
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