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Frederick Hill Meserve

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Businessman and photography collector

Frederick Hill Meserve (1865 – 1962) was a businessman and collector of photographs. He published a large collection of early American photographic portraits. In 1944 he worked with historian Carl Sandburg to publish 100 photographs of Abraham Lincoln. The Library of Congress has his photographic publishings in its collection.

His father William Neal Meserve was a veteran of the American Civil War and kept a diary. Dorothy née Meserve Kunhardt was his daughter.

References

  1. "Collection: Frederick Hill Meserve's Historical portraits, | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu.
  2. ^ "Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content) | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library".
  3. Historical portraits and Lincolniana : index of a part of the collection of Americana of Frederick Hill Meserve. 1915 – via Library of Congress.

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