Genevieve McClain With Graduates
Files
Dublin Core
Title
Genevieve McClain With Graduates
Subject
McClain, Genevieve D. (Robinson) (ca 1895-1983)
African Americans - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Steptoe, Betty
Corley, Frances Cyrus (1931-2020)
Dyer, Perry E. (1934-2018)
Dyer, Jean
Description
Photograph of educator Genevieve McClain (center) standing with four of her students. They are:
Front row, left: Betty Steptoe
Front row, right: Frances Cyrus Corley
Rear row, left: Perry Dyer
Rear row, right: Jean Dyer
These students are ones Genevieve McClain taught while teaching at Creekside School in Woodstock Virginia.
Genevieve worked as an elementary school teacher in Franklin, W. Va., Woodstock, Va., and Stanardsville, Va. In Woodstock, she taught during the late 1940s and early 1950s at Creekside Elementary School, Woodstock's segregated school.
In the 1950 census, she appeared as a boarder in the household of William and Elizabeth Jefferson near Church and Water Streets in Woodstock. She was a schoolteacher.
Front row, left: Betty Steptoe
Front row, right: Frances Cyrus Corley
Rear row, left: Perry Dyer
Rear row, right: Jean Dyer
These students are ones Genevieve McClain taught while teaching at Creekside School in Woodstock Virginia.
Genevieve worked as an elementary school teacher in Franklin, W. Va., Woodstock, Va., and Stanardsville, Va. In Woodstock, she taught during the late 1940s and early 1950s at Creekside Elementary School, Woodstock's segregated school.
In the 1950 census, she appeared as a boarder in the household of William and Elizabeth Jefferson near Church and Water Streets in Woodstock. She was a schoolteacher.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Labelled "Sept 1946" on box of plates.
Contributor
McClain was identified by Barbara Adamson.
Identity of the four students provided by Roy Allen Cooper.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Genevieve McClain appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 006697, 008832, 0014463, 0021891, 0021981, 0025327, and 0025202.
Perry Dyer appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 008832 and 025199.
Frances Corley Dyer appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 008832, 010152, 010153, and 025835.
Jean Dyer appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 008832 and 025198.
Identifier
008832
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Genevieve McClain With Graduates,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed May 2, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/30473.
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