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Genevieve McClain With Graduates

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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.

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

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Genevieve McClain With Graduates,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/30473.

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