Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org
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)