- Collection:
- Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
- Title:
- First Rock Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., main building, 1962-1963
- Contributor to Resource:
- Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935-
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
VCU Libraries - Date of Original:
- 1962/1963
- Subject:
- Elementary schools
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
First Rock Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.) - Location:
- United States, Virginia, Prince Edward County, 37.2243, -78.44108
- Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/tiff
- Description:
- First Rock Elementary School for African Americans on U.S. route 460 in Prince Edward County, Va. View of main building as seen from the highway. Building appeared to be newly painted gray on the front while the paint on the sides was chipping and decaying. 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 to the left 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. Privy can be seen in the background. The structures that made up First Rock had no steam or hot water heat and no indoor plumbing.
37.304873
-78.5227755
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.304873,%20-78.5227755
First Rock Elementary School
African Americans
elementary schools - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A35978
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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. - Extent:
- 6 x 9 cm.
- Original Collection:
- Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
- Contributing Institution:
- James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
- Rights:
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