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Meserve, Frederick H., 1865-1962 Federick Hill Meserve booklets of Photographs of Lincoln and contemporaries

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08548 Author/Creator: Meserve, Frederick H., 1865-1962 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Header Record Date: 1909, 1950 Pagination: 2 booklets Order a Copy

32 photographs in two publishing dummies. One is a publishing dummy for "Life and Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Some of his Contemporaries" (for the Quill Club 2/12/1909), a publishing dummy in black wrappers, containing 20 photographs (adhered). The other is a booklet "Abraham Lincoln" (made for Meserve's daughter and editor Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, 1950) with 12 photographs inserted by their corners into the leaves. Both booklets are signed by Meserve.

Meserve, Frederick Hill, 1865-1962

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