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  1. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0096

    8x10 black and white photograph of the City Hall Building. The back of the photo reads "ca. 1944" The accompanying text reads: "Waynesboro City Hall, (North Wayne & Spring Alley). Housed city officials, jail and police in rear. Courtroom was upstairs; also Chamber of Commerce. Gallaher TV sales and service located next door." Sign above door shaped like an arrow and in neon reads: "Chamber of Commerce City Hall" below is a smaller sign that show...

    Record Type: Photo

    City Hall
  2. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0097

    Two copies of an 8x10 photograph of Main Street with huge crowd in street and on sidewalks. It is taken at night and everyone is facing the camera. The signs on the stores include: "Brooks Cleaners," "Cut Rate Drugs," and "Philco Augusta Furniture." The extreme left side of the picture shows the "Withrow House". The Photograph was taken for "Silver Dollar Days".

    Record Type: Photo

    Crowd on Main Street
  3. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0098

    8x10 photograph showing Charter Members Waynesboro Rotary Club 1924 in front of Waynesboro National Bank. Sign over bank door reads: "Founded 1908 Safe Deposit Boxes" The accompanying text reads: "Front row, left to right: Emmett Barger, Frank White, Guy Brannaman, Carl Bowman, Elliott Drake, Rev. Brown Sith, Col., Morgan Hudgins, Pliny Fishburne, Charles Yancey, Ceylon Quesenbery, Walter Ellison, Richard Clemmer, David Coiner. Back row: Clyde La...

    Record Type: Photo

    Rotary Club 1924
  4. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0100

    4.5x6.5 black and white head shot of Ernest M. East. It was mounted in a Hiserman mount. The accompanying text reads: " July 4, 1892 - November 26, 1970 Postmaster, Commander American Legion." He is wearing glasses and an American Legion hat.

    Record Type: Photo

    Ernest M. East
  5. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0101

    8x10 black and white photograph of 11 men at the Woodrow Wilson Rehab Center. Back of photo is written: " Left to Right (standing): 1st two unknown then Louis Spilman, Ernest East, John Ellis, Guy Rusmeselle, Buck (Walter) Crickenberger, Harry Hubbard) 3 Patients unknown at Woodrow Wilson Hospital Fishersville, VA (Hubbard former minister W-boro Baptist Church then became chaplain WW II, rest of his career)" The 3 patients, one in wheelcha...

    Record Type: Photo

    Woodrow Wilson Rehab Center
  6. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0102

    8x10 black and white photograph of Western Gateway to Waynesboro. The gate reads ".Waynesboro. Gateway Shenandoah National Park" Accompanying text reads "And the Gateway to exciting industrial Waynesboro, circa 1929. The 'Gate' is down but the scene is looking east on Main St. at the point where Rosser Ave. (Rt. 340) enters Main St. (Rt. 250). House [Smith home] at left center was dismantled to make way for Broad St. at the point where is merges ...

    Record Type: Photo

    W'boro Gateway
  7. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0103

    Image of Mrs. Rupert S. Lewis (cashier) selling a ticket to a little boy. The boy is seen from the back. Above the window are two clocks, one at 12:45 and the other at 3:15. Next to one clock it reads "Adults 25 cents" and next to the other it reads "Children 12 cents" There is part of a movie poster visible to the right of the window that reads in part "Wayne....Joan Crawford John Garfield Humoresque." The Wayne Theatre on West Main Street o...

    Record Type: Photo

    Cavalier Theater cashier
  8. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0104

    8x10 black and white photograph of Star Theater in winter. Accompanying text reads: "Early Waynesboro Movie Theater (circa 1922) Star Theatre operated by Col. Max Patterson and Col. Carl C. Loth from 1922 to 1926 in the building now occupied by the News-Virginian. Original structure was erected in 1878 for the First Presbyterian Church, which occupied it until that church moved to its present location on Wayne Ave. in 1909." After Wayne Theater ...

    Record Type: Photo

    Star Theater
  9. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0107

    3.75x3.5 black and white photograph of the Swannanoah mansion during construction, missing windows and piles of dirt in front of the structure, the windows have not yet been installed

    Record Type: Photo

    Swannanoah Mansion Constructio
  10. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0108

    3x4, black and white photograph marked on back: "Construction Dooly Mansion in 1913", horse standing in front of structure

    Record Type: Photo

    Swannanoah Construction.jpg
  11. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0109

    5x7 black and white photograph if the facade of Virginia Metallization, the building also has signs for Loth and Riteway on the facade. There is a Watertown in the background and a car in front of the building. The back of the photo is stamped "Waynesboro - East Augusta Chamber of Commerce" and has a label reading: "Virginia Metallization East Main Street Waynesboro, VA." Handwritten is: " co. mud or late 1950s"

    Record Type: Photo

    Virginia metalcrafters facade.
  12. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0110

    5x7 black and white photograph of Virginia Metalcrafters Sales Shop, a white building with 4 columns, the back of the photo is stamped: "Waynesboro - East Augusta Chamber of Commerce", handwritten on the back: "Virginia Metalcrafters Sales Shop - next to factory, House was formerly home of Dr. Jones, early physician, East Main St. Waynesboro, Va." Also, a booklet of the Stehli Silks Factory indicates with a photograph and notes that this wa...

    Record Type: Photo

    Metalcrafters Sales Shop
  13. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0111

    5x6 black and white photograph of Wayne Motor Sales ca. 1939. Accompanying text reads: "Wayne Motor Sales: (rear view) Brand & Freed Ford Agency at corner of Federal and Mill Streets (before Mill St. was closed). Conversion to Leggett store under way.

    Record Type: Photo

    Wayne Motor Sales.jpg
  14. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0112

    4x4 black and white photograph mounted on heavy matt board. Photo of a man standing at a street corner that has a sign reading "Roden's Corner". He is wearing a suit with a rounded hat, there are electric poles on the street.

    Record Type: Photo

    Rodens Corner.jpg
  15. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0113

    8c10 black and white photograph of the Wayne Theater. Written in pencil on back: The Wayne Theatre, Waynesboro, Va. soon after its erection in 1926." Marquis reads "Flying Romeos." The Wayne Theatre on West Main Street opened on January 18, 1926, The Star Theatre could not compete with the Wayne and went out of business soon after the Wayne opened. The Wayne was the most long-lived of the Waynesboro theaters, surviving for 73 years until it ...

    Record Type: Photo

    Wayne Theater, Circa 1926-27
  16. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0116

    8x10 black and white photograph of a photograph. The image shows Addie Dalhouse and Mrs. Julia McKenney on Wayne Avenue ca. 1900. Accompanying note indicates that Adelaide Dalhouse Webster Stinkley was Peggy Smith's mother's sister and mother of Dr. Thomas Webster. (Possible Fire Tower Bell in upper right corner that was located on Wayne Ave on the west side beside Hamilton Cook Hardware.)

    Record Type: Photo

    Addie Dalhouse & Mrs. Julia McKenney
  17. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0118

    8x10 black and white photograph of a photograph depicting mule drawn trolley, ran from N&W Depot to Brunswick Inn on Wayne Ave. Mules were kept in the Mule Barn at the corner of Fishburne Military Parade field. The Brunswick Hotel opened on Wayne Avenue in 1891. The main building was surrounded by smaller summer cottages, a dance pavilion, recreation pavilion with bowling alley and swimming pool, stables, lithia spring houses and service buil...

    Record Type: Photo

    Basic City Trolley
  18. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0119

    8x10 black and white photo of View from a hill off Port Republic Road looking down on Wayne Ave, about the turn of the century. Back of photo reads: "Waynesboro-looking south along Wayne Ave from hill above C&O tracks. News Virginian is now in the church which is at extreme right." and "Wayne Ave looking South, Waynesboro, Va. Building in left front is still standing in 1974."

    Record Type: Photo

    Wayne Ave Looking South.jpg
  19. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0121

    8x10 black and white photograph of an illustration of the Basic City Advance Office. The building has the words "Advance Stream Publishing House" across the side near the roof. There are horses and buggies passing by the building. Difficult to tell medium of illustration from photo. Signed in lower left corner, illegible.

    Record Type: Photo

    Basic City Advance Office
  20. Print, photographic - 2000.0002.0122

    8x10 black and white photograph of an illustration of a Hardware Factory in Basic City, Va., which is hand written in an ornate style in the bottom right corner. There are horses and buggies passing by the building as well as pedestrians. There are other buildings visible in the background. Difficult to make out medium of illustration from photograph.

    Record Type: Photo

    Hardware Factory Basic City

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