- Collection:
- Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
- Title:
- Mercy Seat Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., 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
Mercy Seat 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:
- 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.
37.230352
-78.461403
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.230352,%20-78.461403
Mercy Seat Elementary School
African Americans
elementary schools - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A36003
- 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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