First Rock Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va. temporary building, 1962-1963
| Title: | First Rock Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va. temporary building, 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: | First Rock Elementary School for African Americans on U.S. route 460 in Prince Edward County, Va. "Temporary" building in foreground. Frame, covered with roofing paper. Privy and another building can be seen in the background. Main building is to the right. The main building was used for grades 1, 4-5, had a pupil capacity of 120 and was built in 1939. "Temporary" tar paper classroom building was used for grades 2-3. This was a frame building covered with roofing paper built in 1949 and had a pupil capacity of 40. The building had no windows. The structures that made up First Rock had no steam or hot water heat and no indoor plumbing. | |
| Identifier(s): | CONTENTdm ID: pec/id/53 (CONTENTdm ID) | |
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GIS Data Latitude: 37.304873 GIS Data Longitude: -78.5227755 Map URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.304873,%20-78.5227755 Name of School: First Rock Elementary School Racial Orientation: African Americans Type of School: elementary schools |
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| Subject(s): |
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.) First Rock Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.) |
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| Coordinates: | 37.304873,-78.5227755 | |
| 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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