Meserve-Kunhardt collection GEN MSS 1430 Collection Overview REPOSITORY: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library P. O. Box 208330 New Haven, CT 06520-8330 (203) 432-2977 beinecke.library@yale.edu http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/ CALL NUMBER: GEN MSS 1430 CREATOR: Meserve, Frederick Hill, 1865-1962 TITLE: Meserve-Kunhardt collection DATES: approximately 1845-1962 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 185.8 linear feet (202 boxes) LANGUAGE: In English. SUMMARY: The Meserve-Kunhardt Collection chiefly consists of photographic material, as well as papers and realia that document the work of Frederick Hill Meserve. A collector and distributor of photographs from 1897 to his death in 1962, Meserve built an extensive collection of material related to Abraham Lincoln as well as other persons, sites, and events of the long nineteenth century. The collection also documents the stewardship and development of the collection from 1962 to 2015 by his descendants, especially his daughter, Dorothy Turner Meserve Kunhardt. The material in the collection provides rich visual documentation of United States history, especially persons, sites, and events during the American Civil War, and details the emergence of photography as a distinctive cultural practice into the early twentieth century. ONLINE FINDING AID: To cite or bookmark this finding aid, please use the following link: https:// hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.meservekunhardt Requesting Instructions To request items from this collection for use in the Beinecke Library reading room, please use the request links in the HTML version of this finding aid, available at https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ beinecke.meservekunhardt. To order reproductions from this collection, please send an email with the call number, box number(s), and folder number(s) to beinecke.images@yale.edu. Key to the container abbreviations used in the PDF finding aid: b. box f. folder Page 17 of 2884