Photographer

Edward H. Peeples

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Date of Photograph

1962-1963

Description

Mercy Seat Baptist Church in Hampden Sydney, Prince Edward County, Va. The church burned when its stove putatively exploded. The closed Mercy Seat Elementary School was loaned by the Prince Edward County School Board to the African American congregation to use for church services until their church was repaired.

Name of Building

Mercy Seat Baptist Church

Corporate Name Subject

Mercy Seat Baptist Church (Hampden-Sydney, Va.)

Topical Subject

Church buildings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works; Baptist church buildings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Pictorial works

Geographic Subject

Prince Edward County (Va.); Hampden-Sydney (Va.)

City/Location

Hampden Sydney (Va.)

County

Prince Edward County (Va.)

Original Image Medium

Black and white negative

Original Image Size

6 x 9 cm.

Genre

photographs

Local Genre

photograph

Type

Still Image

Digital Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

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). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

Collection

Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools

File Name

pec077.jpg

Source

Mercy Seat Baptist Church, Hampden Sydney, Va., 1962-1963, Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers, M 68 and M 342, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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