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Scrapbooks Collection

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

844 WFCHS

Scope and Content: This collection is comprised of several scrapbooks, which contain local history articles, poems, news clippings, and other miscellaneous items concerning the Winchester, VA (USA) area and people and national issues.                                         (4 boxes) Last updated 12/15.

Biographical/Historical: Various scrapbooks by various collectors from the19th and 20th centuries.

Cite As: Scrapbooks Collection, 844 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

Organization:

Box 1

Famous people

Annals of Winchester

Civil War poems

Local and national articles

Poetry

Local history articles, 1920s

"The Whopper Scrapbook" - women's fashions from magazines, 1854-1896

Box 2

Historic houses of the Winchester area, from The Baltimore Sun

Local history articles, 1950s

Local history articles, 1976-1979

Box 3

Newspaper articles about the Civil War

Poetry and helpful hints

News clippings

News clippings

News articles about Handley High School, 1937-1944

Box 4

Poetry and accounts of Confederate Memorial Day

Medicinal cures, lyrics, farm notes, Farm Acts of 1839-1855 and 1886-1888, news clippings of political events