BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Winchester -- Museum of the Shenandoah Valley -- Shenandoah Valley Gallery

VA -- Winchester -- Museum of the Shenandoah Valley -- Shenandoah Valley Gallery:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Description of Pictures: In the Shenandoah Valley Gallery, objects, multi-media presentations, and dioramas explore the sweep of Valley history, and two additional rooms display changing exhibitions highlighting the Valley's decorative arts.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Spiders: The system has identified your IP as being a spider. I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, a number of options like merges are being blocked for you. Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm excited for your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me. If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

[1] MSVSVG_210715_001_STITCH.JPG

[2] MSVSVG_210715_002.JPG	[3] MSVSVG_210715_006.JPG	[4] MSVSVG_210715_010.JPG
[5] MSVSVG_210715_016.JPG	[6] MSVSVG_210715_018.JPG	[7] MSVSVG_210715_021.JPG
[8] MSVSVG_210715_025.JPG	[9] MSVSVG_210715_028.JPG	[10] MSVSVG_210715_032.JPG
[11] MSVSVG_210715_034.JPG	[12] MSVSVG_210715_037.JPG	[13] MSVSVG_210715_045.JPG
[14] MSVSVG_210715_047.JPG	[15] MSVSVG_210715_050.JPG	[16] MSVSVG_210715_053.JPG
[17] MSVSVG_210715_057.JPG	[18] MSVSVG_210715_060.JPG	[19] MSVSVG_210715_064.JPG
[20] MSVSVG_210715_066.JPG	[21] MSVSVG_210715_073.JPG	[22] MSVSVG_210715_075.JPG
[23] MSVSVG_210715_078.JPG	[24] MSVSVG_210715_080.JPG	[25] MSVSVG_210715_083.JPG
[26] MSVSVG_210715_086.JPG	[27] MSVSVG_210715_091.JPG	[28] MSVSVG_210715_093.JPG
[29] MSVSVG_210715_096.JPG	[30] MSVSVG_210715_098.JPG	[31] MSVSVG_210715_101.JPG
[32] MSVSVG_210715_104.JPG	[33] MSVSVG_210715_107.JPG	[34] MSVSVG_210715_110.JPG
[35] MSVSVG_210715_113.JPG	[36] MSVSVG_210715_116.JPG	[37] MSVSVG_210715_119.JPG
[38] MSVSVG_210715_121.JPG	[39] MSVSVG_210715_124.JPG	[40] MSVSVG_210715_127.JPG
[41] MSVSVG_210715_130.JPG	[42] MSVSVG_210715_133.JPG	[43] MSVSVG_210715_136.JPG
[44] MSVSVG_210715_139.JPG	[45] MSVSVG_210715_142.JPG	[46] MSVSVG_210715_146.JPG
[47] MSVSVG_210715_148.JPG	[48] MSVSVG_210715_151.JPG	[49] MSVSVG_210715_154.JPG
[50] MSVSVG_210715_156.JPG	[51] MSVSVG_210715_165.JPG	[52] MSVSVG_210715_169.JPG
[53] MSVSVG_210715_173.JPG	[54] MSVSVG_210715_178.JPG	[55] MSVSVG_210715_181.JPG
[56] MSVSVG_210715_188.JPG	[57] MSVSVG_210715_196.JPG	[58] MSVSVG_210715_199.JPG
[59] MSVSVG_210715_203.JPG	[60] MSVSVG_210715_205.JPG	[61] MSVSVG_210715_209.JPG
[62] MSVSVG_210715_212.JPG	[63] MSVSVG_210715_215.JPG	[64] MSVSVG_210715_218.JPG
[65] MSVSVG_210715_223.JPG	[66] MSVSVG_210715_224.JPG	[67] MSVSVG_210715_226.JPG
[68] MSVSVG_210715_228.JPG	[69] MSVSVG_210715_230.JPG	[70] MSVSVG_210715_233.JPG
[71] MSVSVG_210715_236.JPG	[72] MSVSVG_210715_242.JPG	[73] MSVSVG_210715_248.JPG
[74] MSVSVG_210715_251.JPG	[75] MSVSVG_210715_257.JPG	[76] MSVSVG_210715_261.JPG
[77] MSVSVG_210715_266.JPG	[78] MSVSVG_210715_272.JPG	[79] MSVSVG_210715_276.JPG
[80] MSVSVG_210715_279.JPG	[81] MSVSVG_210715_281.JPG	[82] MSVSVG_210715_288.JPG
[83] MSVSVG_210715_291.JPG	[84] MSVSVG_210715_294.JPG	[85] MSVSVG_210715_297.JPG
[86] MSVSVG_210715_300.JPG	[87] MSVSVG_210715_305.JPG	[88] MSVSVG_210715_309.JPG
[89] MSVSVG_210715_312.JPG	[90] MSVSVG_210715_319.JPG	[91] MSVSVG_210715_320.JPG
[92] MSVSVG_210715_323.JPG	[93] MSVSVG_210715_326.JPG	[94] MSVSVG_210715_329.JPG
[95] MSVSVG_210715_333.JPG	[96] MSVSVG_210715_336.JPG	[97] MSVSVG_210715_343.JPG
[98] MSVSVG_210715_344.JPG	[99] MSVSVG_210715_347.JPG	[100] MSVSVG_210715_351.JPG
[101] MSVSVG_210715_354.JPG	[102] MSVSVG_210715_357.JPG	[103] MSVSVG_210715_360.JPG
[104] MSVSVG_210715_363.JPG	[105] MSVSVG_210715_366.JPG	[106] MSVSVG_210715_368.JPG
[107] MSVSVG_210715_370.JPG	[108] MSVSVG_210715_373.JPG	[109] MSVSVG_210715_377.JPG
[110] MSVSVG_210715_379.JPG	[111] MSVSVG_210715_383.JPG	[112] MSVSVG_210715_388.JPG
[113] MSVSVG_210715_390.JPG	[114] MSVSVG_210715_393.JPG	[115] MSVSVG_210715_395.JPG
[116] MSVSVG_210715_398.JPG	[117] MSVSVG_210715_400.JPG	[118] MSVSVG_210715_403.JPG
[119] MSVSVG_210715_405.JPG	[120] MSVSVG_210715_407.JPG	[121] MSVSVG_210715_410.JPG
[122] MSVSVG_210715_415.JPG	[123] MSVSVG_210715_418.JPG	[124] MSVSVG_210715_420.JPG
[125] MSVSVG_210715_423.JPG	[126] MSVSVG_210715_425.JPG	[127] MSVSVG_210715_429.JPG
[128] MSVSVG_210715_432.JPG	[129] MSVSVG_210715_434.JPG	[130] MSVSVG_210715_440.JPG
[131] MSVSVG_210715_443.JPG	[132] MSVSVG_210715_447.JPG	[133] MSVSVG_210715_455.JPG
[134] MSVSVG_210715_458.JPG	[135] MSVSVG_210715_466.JPG	[136] MSVSVG_210715_467.JPG
[137] MSVSVG_210715_471.JPG	[138] MSVSVG_210715_477.JPG	[139] MSVSVG_210715_482.JPG
[140] MSVSVG_210715_483.JPG	[141] MSVSVG_210715_488.JPG	[142] MSVSVG_210715_491.JPG
[143] MSVSVG_210715_493.JPG	[144] MSVSVG_210715_496.JPG	[145] MSVSVG_210715_499.JPG
[146] MSVSVG_210715_502.JPG	[147] MSVSVG_210715_505.JPG	[148] MSVSVG_210715_508.JPG
[149] MSVSVG_210715_514.JPG	[150] MSVSVG_210715_519.JPG	[151] MSVSVG_210715_521.JPG
[152] MSVSVG_210715_524.JPG	[153] MSVSVG_210715_527.JPG	[154] MSVSVG_210715_530.JPG
[155] MSVSVG_210715_534.JPG	[156] MSVSVG_210715_539.JPG	[157] MSVSVG_210715_546.JPG
[158] MSVSVG_210716_01.JPG	[159] MSVSVG_210716_11.JPG	[160] MSVSVG_210716_18.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MSVSVG_210715_006.JPG: Is That My Cow? That IS My Cow!
2. MSVSVG_210715_010.JPG: John Brown's Raid Incites a Nation
3. MSVSVG_210715_021.JPG: A "Spirited" Past
4. MSVSVG_210715_025.JPG: Drilling a Hole in History
5. MSVSVG_210715_032.JPG: Map of Shenandoah Valley from Winchester to New Market, Virginia
6. MSVSVG_210715_045.JPG: The Valley Recovers
7. MSVSVG_210715_053.JPG: A Fruitful Place
8. MSVSVG_210715_060.JPG: View of Winchester, Virginia, 1856 Edward Beyer, 1856
9. MSVSVG_210715_064.JPG: View of Winchester, Virginia, 1856 Edward Beyer, 1856
10. MSVSVG_210715_066.JPG: 1830s in the Valley
11. MSVSVG_210715_073.JPG: Mills To Markets By River and Rails
12. MSVSVG_210715_078.JPG: Heart of the House The 1830s Valley Kitchen
13. MSVSVG_210715_080.JPG: Life On the Fast Track
14. MSVSVG_210715_086.JPG: Shopping Malls? Not in the 1830s!
15. MSVSVG_210715_091.JPG: The American Frugal Housewife
16. MSVSVG_210715_093.JPG: Think You're Tired?
17. MSVSVG_210715_096.JPG: Learning in the Valley
18. MSVSVG_210715_098.JPG: BETHANY VENEY: From Slavery to Freedom
19. MSVSVG_210715_101.JPG: THOMAS GLASS: A Farmer Like Many
20. MSVSVG_210715_104.JPG: Moving On Again
21. MSVSVG_210715_113.JPG: Time to Modernize
22. MSVSVG_210715_116.JPG: 1930s In the Valley
23. MSVSVG_210715_119.JPG: New Ways to Get the Job Done
24. MSVSVG_210715_121.JPG: Reform Is a Family Affair
25. MSVSVG_210715_124.JPG: The Joy of Cooking
26. MSVSVG_210715_127.JPG: Heart of the Home The 1930s Valley Kitchen
27. MSVSVG_210715_133.JPG: Demonstrations Make the Best of Things
28. MSVSVG_210715_136.JPG: Arbutus Godfrey A Shenandoah Valley Farm Girl
29. MSVSVG_210715_139.JPG: Cooperatives for Changing Times
30. MSVSVG_210715_142.JPG: Sowing Seeds of Change
31. MSVSVG_210715_146.JPG: Looking for Work
32. MSVSVG_210715_148.JPG: Tough Times, Big Changes
33. MSVSVG_210715_151.JPG: Living in the Mountains
34. MSVSVG_210715_154.JPG: A Price for a Park
35. MSVSVG_210715_156.JPG: Harper's Ferry, Virginia, 1859-1960 Attributed to Ferdinand Joachim Richardt
36. MSVSVG_210715_169.JPG: View of Natural Bridge and Niagara Falls, about 1840 Unknown artist after Henry Schenck Tanner
37. MSVSVG_210715_173.JPG: Mt. Vernon -- Washington's Tomb, 1840-1860 Unknown artist possibly after William Henry Brooke
38. MSVSVG_210715_181.JPG: Martha Washington, about 1850 Attributed to Jane Stuart, after Gilbert Stuart
39. MSVSVG_210715_188.JPG: George Washington, about 1850 Attributed to Jane Stuart, after Gilbert Stuart
40. MSVSVG_210715_199.JPG: One Valley, Many Products
41. MSVSVG_210715_203.JPG: One Valley, Many Products
42. MSVSVG_210715_209.JPG: Echoes Over Time The Story of the Shenandoah Valley
43. MSVSVG_210715_212.JPG: The Shenandoah Valley Gallery
44. MSVSVG_210715_215.JPG: Shenandoah, What Do You Mean? Oh, Shenandoah!
45. MSVSVG_210715_218.JPG: land At Ground Level
46. MSVSVG_210715_223.JPG: water What's Up Is Down
47. MSVSVG_210715_226.JPG: About this map
48. MSVSVG_210715_228.JPG: nature Geographic Regions of Virginia
49. MSVSVG_210715_230.JPG: Plants and Animals Everywhere...
50. MSVSVG_210715_233.JPG: Some Have Been Lost
51. MSVSVG_210715_236.JPG: Some Have Been Saved
52. MSVSVG_210715_242.JPG: Peaks and Valleys Covered in Trees
53. MSVSVG_210715_248.JPG: Trees For a Thousand Uses
54. MSVSVG_210715_251.JPG: Rock Shelter Refuge
55. MSVSVG_210715_257.JPG: The Valley's First People
56. MSVSVG_210715_261.JPG: Who Were the Valley's First People?
57. MSVSVG_210715_266.JPG: PALEOINDIANS 13,400 - 11,450 Years Ago
58. MSVSVG_210715_276.JPG: What Is This?
59. MSVSVG_210715_279.JPG: Late Archaic Indians
60. MSVSVG_210715_281.JPG: Early and Middle Archaic Indians
61. MSVSVG_210715_288.JPG: Living in a Changing World
62. MSVSVG_210715_291.JPG: ARCHAIC INDIANS 11,450 - 3,200 Years Ago
63. MSVSVG_210715_294.JPG: WOODLAND INDIANS 3,200 - 300 Years Ago Farmers and Craftspeople
64. MSVSVG_210715_297.JPG: Farmers and Craftspeople
65. MSVSVG_210715_300.JPG: Can YOU Think Like an Archaeologist?
66. MSVSVG_210715_305.JPG: What Happened to the Valley's Indians?
67. MSVSVG_210715_319.JPG: Native Americans in Virginia Today
68. MSVSVG_210715_323.JPG: THE VALLEY ATTRACTS The Valley's First Tourists
69. MSVSVG_210715_329.JPG: The Counties of the Shenandoah Valley
70. MSVSVG_210715_343.JPG: The VALLEY'S ROAD Going Where Others Have Gone Before
71. MSVSVG_210715_347.JPG: "Old Jake" Weathervane, circa 1860
72. MSVSVG_210715_351.JPG: PLACES TO VISIT Exploring the Valley's Attractions
73. MSVSVG_210715_357.JPG: Settling In the Valley
74. MSVSVG_210715_360.JPG: shelter A Simple Log Home
75. MSVSVG_210715_368.JPG: Step Right Up, Who Accepts the Challenge?
76. MSVSVG_210715_370.JPG: Some Speak the Language, Others Buy the Book
77. MSVSVG_210715_373.JPG: Development Comes to the Valley
78. MSVSVG_210715_377.JPG: Their Own Land, Their Own Religion
79. MSVSVG_210715_379.JPG: Some "Worldly Estates" Were Pretty Modest
80. MSVSVG_210715_383.JPG: Reading Between the Lines
81. MSVSVG_210715_388.JPG: Reading Between the Lines
82. MSVSVG_210715_390.JPG: Bryan McNamee A Farmer Like Many
83. MSVSVG_210715_393.JPG: Just Enough and No More
84. MSVSVG_210715_400.JPG: As Valuable as the Land workers
85. MSVSVG_210715_403.JPG: As Valuable as the Land workers
86. MSVSVG_210715_405.JPG: A Powerful Force Without Power
87. MSVSVG_210715_407.JPG: Some Amass More than Others
88. MSVSVG_210715_410.JPG: Rich, Poor, and In-Between
89. MSVSVG_210715_418.JPG: The Wood Family Anglo Virginians in the Valley
90. MSVSVG_210715_420.JPG: James and Mary Wood The Wood Family Legacy
91. MSVSVG_210715_425.JPG: Religious Tolerance
92. MSVSVG_210715_429.JPG: The Henry Family African Americans in the Valley
93. MSVSVG_210715_434.JPG: Patrick, Williamson, Dunkin, and John Liberia: New Home, New Dignity
94. MSVSVG_210715_440.JPG: What is her name?
95. MSVSVG_210715_443.JPG: The Glass Family Scots Irish in The Valley
96. MSVSVG_210715_447.JPG: Samuel and Mary Glass Rose Hill: The Family Home William and Nannie Glass
97. MSVSVG_210715_455.JPG: Following the Faith
98. MSVSVG_210715_458.JPG: The Henkel Family Germans in The Valley
99. MSVSVG_210715_466.JPG: Paul and Elizabeth Henkel The Henkel Press Solon and Anna Maria Henkel
100. MSVSVG_210715_467.JPG: The Valley Mixes It Up
101. MSVSVG_210715_471.JPG: The Valley Recovers
102. MSVSVG_210715_477.JPG: Loyalties Divide
103. MSVSVG_210715_483.JPG: Crafting a Tradition The Bell Family: Ringing a Strong Note
104. MSVSVG_210715_488.JPG: Can you dig it?
105. MSVSVG_210715_493.JPG: No Stoneware Unturned
106. MSVSVG_210715_499.JPG: Settling the Valley
107. MSVSVG_210715_508.JPG: Boundary Stone, about 1730 Maker unknown Boundary stones are among the earliest artifacts of European settlement in the Valley. This stone marked the boundary between land owned by Thomas, Lord Fairfax (1693-1781) and his neighbors in what is now Clarke County, Virginia. In the early 1700s, the British crown and Virginia colonial government encouraged people to settle west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This was part of an effort to create a buffer from Indian attacks and French expansion.
108. MSVSVG_210715_519.JPG: Surveying the Valley
109. MSVSVG_210715_521.JPG: When Wheat Was King
110. MSVSVG_210715_524.JPG: Barrister's Bench Wig (Reproduction), 1747-1759 Geodaesia: or The Art of Surveying and Measuring Land Made Easie, 11th Edition, 1792
111. MSVSVG_210715_530.JPG: The Land Provides
112. MSVSVG_210715_534.JPG: Doll, mid-1800s Maker unknown Few belongings of the Valley's enslaved population survive. This doll may be an exception. In the 1940s, while playing in a cabin on the Branner family farm near Forestville, two young girls found this doll in a hidden nook. A century earlier, this cabin had served as the farm's slave quarters. An enslaved person living in the cabin probably made the doll. Scholars have compared the doll's flat body and dish-like head to West African akua 'ba fertility figures. West African women traditionally strapped akua 'ba figures on their backs to mimic real children and entice fertility spirits to bless them with a child.
113. MSVSVG_210715_539.JPG: View of the Canal at Harper's Ferry, 1855-1859 Ferdinand Joachim Richardt The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the center of his painting opened in 1831. The canal played a vital role in moving the Valley's agricultural products to far-away markets. Flatboats like the "Eternel" depicted here transported goods west to Cumberland, Maryland, or east to Washington DC. On the boat's upper deck stands a man with a trumpet. Boatmen blew trumpets or horns one-quarter mile away from a canal lock so the attendant could prepare the lock for their approach.
114. MSVSVG_210715_546.JPG: Strainer, 1800s
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Wikipedia Description: Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley is located at 901 Amherst Street, Winchester, Virginia. The Museum endeavours to preserve and enrich the cultural life and heritage of the Valley. Located on the largest green space in the city of Winchester, the MSV is a regional cultural center including a museum designed by Driehaus Prize winner Michael Graves, seven acres of formal gardens, and the Glen Burnie House dating to the 18th century.

The MSV complex consists of three main components:

House

The Glen Burnie Historic House traces its history to surveyor James Wood (?-1759), who settled this land in the early 18th century and donated portions of his land to establish the city of Winchester, Virginia in 1744. His son Robert Wood constructed the central portion of the Glen Burnie Historic House in the 1790s. The house’s ownership passed through several generations of Wood and then Glass families until Julian Wood Glass Jr. (1910–1992), acquired it in 1955. Julian Wood Glass Jr. was the last descendant of James Wood to own the Glen Burnie Historic House.

Beginning in 1959, and aided by his partner R. Lee Taylor, Glass transformed the house into a country estate, and the couple designed the Glen Burnie Gardens. Glass created the Glass-Glen Burnie Foundation prior to his death in 1992, and entrusted the Foundation to open the site to the public as a museum. The Glen Burnie Historic House & Gardens opened to the public in 1998.

Today, interpretive panels tell the story of those who lived in the house from 1796 to 1992 and exhibitions are presented annually in the Drawing Room.

The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Gardens

The gardens surrounding the Glen Burnie Historic House were created beginning in 1956 and evolved over the latter half of the 20th century. Built for formal entertaining, the gardens include sculpture, fountains, and folly buildings. Highlights include rose, statue, vegetable, Asian, and perennial gardens. The pond in the Water Garden is stocked with golden trout.

Museum

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley was designed by architect Michael Graves and opened to the public in 2005. The Museum contains four main galleries:

Shenandoah Valley Gallery

The broad sweep of Valley prehistory and history is explored in the museum's large Shenandoah Valley Gallery. A number of different exhibition techniques are used here, including multi-media presentations, interactive elements, images, maps, dioramas, and display of decorative arts. Objects on display include furniture, fraktur, silver and other metals, baskets, textiles, paintings, folk art, long rifles, and ceramics, for which the Valley is famous.

Founders Gallery

Presents changing exhibitions including, or relating to, the private collection of MSV benefactor, Julian Wood Glass Jr.

R. Lee Taylor Miniatures Gallery

This gallery presents an outstanding collection of furnished miniature houses and rooms by R. Lee Taylor (1924–2000), who lived at Glen Burnie from the late 1950s until his death. At the time of his death, Taylor had assembled fourteen completely furnished rooms and houses. On display are five houses and four rooms by R. Lee Taylor showcasing the work of more than seventy-five miniatures artisans. Also on display are four shadowboxes by the late Valley miniatures artist William P. Massey, who created his work between the 1930s to 1940s.

Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Several temporary exhibitions are presented throughout the year.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].