First Rock Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va. temporary building, 1962-1963

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Title	First Rock Elementary School, Prince Edward County, Va. temporary building, 1962-1963
Name of School	First Rock Elementary School
Type of School	elementary schools
Racial Orientation	African Americans
Date of Photograph	1962-1963
County	Prince Edward County (Va.)
Description	First Rock Elementary School for African Americans on U.S. route 460 in Prince Edward County, Va. "Temporary" building in foreground. Frame, covered with roofing paper. Privy and another building can be seen in the background. Main building is to the right. 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 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. The structures that made up First Rock had no steam or hot water heat and no indoor plumbing.
Subject	elementary schools
Corporate Name Subject	First Rock 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	37.304873,-78.5227755
Map URL	http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.304873,%20-78.5227755
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	pec004a.tif

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