Frederick Hill Meserve

Frederick Hill Meserve (1865 – 1962) was a businessman and collector of photographs. He published a large collection of early American photographic portraits.[1] In 1944 he worked with historian Carl Sandburg to publish 100 photographs of Abraham Lincoln.[2] The Library of Congress has his photographic publishings in its collection.[3]

His father William Neal Meserve was a veteran of the American Civil War and kept a diary. Dorothy née Meserve Kunhardt was his daughter.[2]

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. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. 1915.


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