1781 THL 

Finding aid created by Archives Staff 02/18. Revised 02/2022

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS: Scrapbooks of obituaries are digitized, saved as TIFF image files and searchable PDFs, and kept on a flash drive held with the collection. Please ask Archives staff if you need assistance in accessing these files.

USE RESTRICTIONS:  Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT:  1 folder; 1 flash drive

CREATOR: Russell, Hilda Edwards

DATES: 1942-1945

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This Hilda Edwards Russell Collection contains four scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings of Winchester and Frederick County residents serving in the military during World War II. All are in alphabetical order. Also included are receipts from various individuals to Robert Shanholtz dating from March 1865 to March 1893.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Hilda Edwards Russell started the scrapbooks while her husband, Samuel ‘Peachie” Russell, was serving in the Army during World War II and finished them in 2003.

CITE AS: Hilda Russell Edwards Collection, 1781 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA. 

ACQUISITION INFORMATION:  Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Receipts – Robert Shanholtz –dated March 1865 to March 1892 (folder includes the following):

Receipt from John Streit –dated March 1865, manuscript

Receipt from Jefferson? –dated January 1875, manuscript

Receipt from Thornton Braithwaite, dated January 1875, manuscript

Receipt from Tormson Kerns, dated June 1886, manuscript

Receipt from W. S. Grant, dated Sept 1887, manuscript

Receipt from A. Shearer, dated Sept 1888, manuscript

Receipt from James Wares Estate, dated 1889, manuscript

Receipt from Newark Machine Co., dated Nov. 1889, manuscript

Receipt from Newark Machine Co., dated Nov. 1889, manuscript

Receipt from Treasurer of Frederick County, dated Sept 1891, manuscript

Receipt from C. R. Smithey, dated Oct. 1891, manuscript

Receipt from Wm. R. Harts Estate, dated 1893, manuscript

Receipt from Treasurer of Frederick county, dated Nov. 1894, manuscript

Receipt from A. L. Shearer, dated Aug. 1896, manuscript

Receipt from W. R. Hart, dated Set. 1896, manuscript

Receipt from Treasurer of Frederick County, dated 1897, manuscript

Receipt from Shenandoah Valley Nat’l. Bank, dated May 1897, manuscript

Receipt from Isaac Shanholtz, dated March 1892, manuscript 

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of Winchester and Frederick County residents serving in the military during World War II. All are in alphabetical order. Scrapbook pages are saved as searchable PDFs on the flash drive.

Book #1: A-L (TIFF/PDF, 56 images/pages)

Book #2: M-W (TIFF/PDF, 53 images/pages)

Book #3: A-L (TIFF/PDF, 57 images/pages)

Book #4: L-Z  (TIFF/PDF, 52 images/pages)