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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)