Peaks Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., classroom interior, 1962-1963
| Title: | Peaks Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., classroom interior, 1962-1963. |
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| Name(s): |
Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935-2019, photographer James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives, contributor VCU Libraries, publisher |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Photograph | |
| Date Created: | 1962-1963 | |
| Physical Form: | black and white negative | |
| Extent: | 6 x 9 cm. | |
| Digitization Process: | Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 8-bit grayscale, 1200 ppi. | |
| Abstract/Description: | Peaks Elementary School for African Americans, located on county road 626 in Prince Edward County, Va. View of interior of classroom with wood stove. The school was built in 1939, with a 1943 addition, and served grades 1-6 with a pupil capacity of 70. There was no indoor plumbing and no steam or hot water heat. At the time the photograph was taken, it was in very poor condition with peeling whitewash, two rooms with wood stoves and pipes, and outdoor privies in poor shape. | |
| Identifier(s): | CONTENTdm ID: pec/id/46 (CONTENTdm ID) | |
| Note(s): |
GIS Data Latitude: 37.334038 GIS Data Longitude: -78.5786123 Map URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.334038,%20-78.5786123 Name of School: Peaks Elementary School Racial Orientation: African Americans Type of School: elementary schools |
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| Subject(s): |
Stoves (heating equipment) Classrooms Elementary schools Prince Edward County (Va.) Schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works African American schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works Elementary schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works African American elementary schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works School buildings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works County: Prince Edward County (Va.) Peaks Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.) |
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| Coordinates: | 37.334038,-78.5786123 | |
| LC Classification: | LA380.P74 | |
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| Rights Statement: | In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted | |
| Rights: | This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required. | |
| Is Part Of: | Collection: Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools. | |
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