246a. PHILENA CARKIN COLLECTION
3 items, 1866-1902
The collection contains a bound manuscript journal of this
Massachusetts schoolteacher of freedmen in Charlottesville, 1866-75, under the auspices of the American Freedmen's Aid
Commission entitled "Reminiscences of my Life and Work among the Freedmen of
Charlottesville, Virginia, from March 1st 1866 to July 1st
1875," vol. 1, together with a carte-de-visite portrait, n.d.,
of Carkin by Charlottesville photographer William
Roads, and a copy of her certificate of commission as a teacher of
ex-slaves issued by the Eastern Department of the American Freedman's Aid
Commission.
(Acc. 11123)
