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Events and locations identified include Harrisonburg (band reunion parade, train station); the campus of the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg including Ashby Hall (now Harper Allen-Lee Hall); a circus elephant wearing a Friddle's Restaurant banner; the Rockingham County Fair; People's Bank; Rawley Springs; Broadway; Bridgewater; Luray; Elkton; Woodstock vs. Harrisonburg baseball game; Buchanan Springs; Cumberland, Maryland; Hampton, Virginia; and Benwood, West Virginia.","Photograph album 3 contains Garber and Logan family photographs, the bulk of which are unidentified. 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