Album containing Carte de Visites of Freed People's School Teachers and Missionaries in Mississippi

Chicago; other named locations include Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi: Circa 1864-1869. 6 x 5-1/4 inches. [4], 25 thick cardstock leaves containing 47 CDVs and one tintype, the majority of which have been captioned neatly in ink, plus one illustrated card. Brown leather commercial album designed to house CDVs, with gold clasps, gilt decoration and titling, and all edges gilt. Front hinge split; light soiling and toning to endpapers; scattered soiling to leaves containing CDVs; tear to bottom edge of first leaf housing a CDV; light damp-staining to last leaf and rear endpapers. Some light soiling/wear/spotting to CDVs, not affecting overall clarity of image. Good. A rare photograph album documenting teachers and missionaries working at Freed People's schools and with Freed People in Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi from at least 1864-1869, as well as, to some extent, the relationships between them. The album appears to have been compiled by one of the teachers, Mary Hyde Brown (17