Purchased at Laughlin Auction February 29, 2024. Auction 362. Item numbers 1115 and 1586.
Sleeves are ordered with dated item first and undated items at the rear.
[Identification of item] Strasburg Ephemera Collection, ca. 1915, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.
No original order. Received in open cardboard boxes from auction. Photographs were sleeved and placed in box.
This collection contains one box.
Box 1: eight (8) sleeves with ephemera such as a college graduation invitation and photographs
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The bank robbery occured at Massanutten Bank in Strasburg, Virginia on April 27, 1900.
Dr. Bender B. Kneisley (????-1989) grew up in Strasburg and worked at his father's drugstore while attending Strasburg High School. He attended Roanoke College and went on to become a physician for more than 40 years in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Cooley, C. Douglas. Strasburg Community Memories: A Pictoral Display in the Strasburg Museum. 1999. Shenandoah Room, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.
"Bender B. Kneisley." The MedChi Archives Blog. Accessed May 16, 2025. https://medchiarchives.blogspot.com/p/bender-b-kneisley.html