Five Forks Elementary School, Five Forks, Va., 1962-1963
| Title: | Five Forks Elementary School, Five Forks, Va., 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: | Five Forks Elementary School for African Americans on secondary road 658 west of Five Forks, Prince Edward County, Va. Built in 1918, it served grades 1-5, and had a pupil capacity of 60. Whitewashed and in very poor condition at the time the photograph was taken, it consisted of two rooms, three wooden shacks and one privy. No indoor plumbing and no steam or hot water heat. | |
| Identifier(s): | CONTENTdm ID: pec/id/57 (CONTENTdm ID) | |
| Note(s): |
GIS Data Latitude: 37.243206 GIS Data Longitude: -78.5888886 Map URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.243206,%20-78.5888886 Name of School: Five Forks 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.) Town/Community: Five Forks (Va.) Five Forks Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.) |
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| Coordinates: | 37.243206,-78.5888886 | |
| LC Classification: | LA380.P74 | |
| Rights Statement URL: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ | |
| 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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