Author: (MESERVE, Frederick Hill)
Title: Frederick Hill Meserve Tribute
Description: Harrogate, TN, Lincoln Memorial University, 1941. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers tied with thin blue cord. (4pp). Illustrations. Fine. Sole printing. Carl Sandburg provides the introduction to this program presided over by Stewart McClelland. Speakers included Robert L. Kincaid, Carl W. Schaefer, Lester O. Schriver, R. Gerald McMurtry -- and of course Meserve himself. Meserve was a pioneering photography historian (1865-1962), "America's first great photograph collector" who assigned numbers to Lincoln photographs ("Meserve numbers") that are still used today. Very uncommon memento. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Photography


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