Frederick Hill Meserve

Frederick Hill Meserve (1865 – 1962) was a businessman and collector of photographs.[1] He published a large collection of early American photographic portraits.[2] In 1944 he worked with historian Carl Sandburg to publish 100 photographs of Abraham Lincoln, titled "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln".[3] The Library of Congress has his photographic publishings in its collection.[4] Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library[5] and the National Portrait Gallery[6] together own more than 73,000 items in the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection.[7]

His father William Neal Meserve was a veteran of the American Civil War and kept a diary. Dorothy Turner (née Meserve) Kunhardt was his daughter.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Frederick Hill Meserve Dies; Lincolniana Collector Was 96; File of 200,000 Prints Aided Sculptors and Scholars Book Brings $1,000 (Published 1962)". 1962-06-26. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  2. ^ "Collection: Frederick Hill Meserve's Historical portraits, | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content) | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library".
  4. ^ Historical portraits and Lincolniana : index of a part of the collection of Americana of Frederick Hill Meserve. 1915 – via Library of Congress.
  5. ^ archives.yale.edu https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/5714. Retrieved 2025-09-04. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Meserve Collection, National Portrait Gallery | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  7. ^ "Exploring the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection | Yale-Smithsonian Partnership". yale-smithsonian.yale.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
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