Photographer

Edward H. Peeples

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Date of Photograph

1962-1963

Description

Recreation center off Longwood Ave. in Farmville, Va. View of the side yard. It was purchased for $5,000 and improved by Prince Edward County African American citizens through their Farmville Recreation Association. It was used as a community center for African American throughout the county. It was also the site of activities conducted by the Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County.

Name of Building

Recreation Center (Farmville)

Corporate Name Subject

Farmville Recreation Association; Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County

Topical Subject

Recreation centers -- Virginia -- Farmville -- History -- Pictorial works

Geographic Subject

Farmville (Va.)

City/Location

Farmville (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

pec080.jpg

Source

Recreation center in Farmville, Va., 1962-1962, 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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