Peaks Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., front view of building, 1962-1963

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Title	Peaks Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va., front view of building, 1962-1963
Name of School	Peaks Elementary School
Type of School	elementary schools
Racial Orientation	African Americans
Date of Photograph	1962-1963
County	Prince Edward County (Va.)
Description	Peaks Elementary School for African Americans, located on county road 626 in Prince Edward County, Va. View of front of building facing the road. The school was built in 1939, with a 1943 addition, and served grades 1-6 with a pupil capacity of 70. There was no indoor plumbing and no steam or hot water heat. At the time the photograph was taken, it was in very poor condition with peeling whitewash, two rooms with wood stoves and pipes, and outdoor privies in poor shape.
Subject	elementary schools
Corporate Name Subject	Peaks Elementary School (Prince Edward County, Va.)
Topical Subject	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
Geographic Subject	Prince Edward County (Va.)
Local Genre	photograph
Photographer	Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935-
LC Classification	LA380.P74
GIS Data	37.334038,-78.5786123
Map URL	http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.334038,%20-78.5786123
Original Image Medium	Black and white negative
Original Image Size	6 x 9 cm.
Type	Stillimage
Digital File Type	image/tiff
Date Digitized	2009-04
Digitization Process	Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 8-bit grayscale, 1200 ppi.
Rights	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Contributor	James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Collection	Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
Original File Name	pec001.tif

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