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

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to publish 100 photographs of

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. The

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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.

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1865 births 1962 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1860s-stub