A Guide to the Venable School Grade 5A Class Photograph, 1925, #MS 692

A Guide to the Venable School Grade 5A Class Photograph, 1925

A Collection in
the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Accession number MS 692

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Charlottesville, VA 22902
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Gloves Required when handling photographs

Preferred Citation

Venable School Grade 5 Class Photograph, MS 692, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, VA.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from pamphlet file.

Venable Elementary was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1925. It was named for Charles Scott Venable (1827-1900) who was a civil war soldier, professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia and author of arithmetic books for children. Paul Goodloe McIntire was an influential proponent for naming the new school after Venable. Venable Elementary was one of the first schools, along with Lane High School, to be desegregated when nine students entered the school in 1959.

Scope and Content

This is a 1925 photograph of grade 5a. On verso: "1925, Grade 5A, Miss Land teacher, Lucy Somers Yowell's class, Venable school, Charlottesville, VA."