Mercy Seat Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., 1962-1963
| Title: | Mercy Seat Elementary School, Prince Edward County, 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: | Mercy Seat Elementary School for African Americans on secondary road 665 in Prince Edward County, Va. It was used by an African American congregation by permission of the school board as a meeting place for their burned out Mercy Seat Baptist Church. The school was built in 1927, served grades 1-5, and had a pupil capacity of 120. Two room schoolhouse, whitewash peeling, wood frame and clapboard construction. There was no indoor plumbing and no steam or hot water heat. | |
| Identifier(s): | CONTENTdm ID: pec/id/75 (CONTENTdm ID) | |
| Note(s): |
GIS Data Latitude: 37.230352 GIS Data Longitude: -78.461403 Map URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.230352,%20-78.461403 Name of School: Mercy Seat 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.) Mercy Seat Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.) |
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| Coordinates: | 37.230352,-78.461403 | |
| 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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