1910 Frederick Hill Meserve 1865 Lincoln Death Bed reprint of Mathew Brady photo for Sale

1910 Frederick Hill Meserve 1865 Lincoln Death Bed reprint of Mathew Brady photo For Sale

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1910 Frederick Hill Meserve 1865 Lincoln Death Bed reprint of Mathew Brady photo:
$125.00

Up for sale in this listing is one of the RARE photographic Abraham Lincoln prints Frederick Hill Meserve reproduced in 1910 from original 1865 Civil War Era daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and negatives produced by Matthew Brady.
Meserve purchased nearly the entire Mathew Brady archive of Lincoln material and arranged for facsimiles of the numerous photographs to be published in an advertised volume titled THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. This volume was created as an adveritisement to a forth-coming book which was \"believed to contain all iof the known photographs of of the Great War President. From these photographs all the engravings, etchings, lighographs and paintings have been made, with the exception of the very few paintings made from life.\"
Only 100 signed and numbered copies of the advertisement volume were produced with 20th century preprints from original daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and negatives. Of these, only 90 of the volumes were made available to the public.
This photo was one of those presented in the 1910 volume (one of only 100 prints produced). The hand made sepiatone photo has a silvertone finish and was printed on higher grade paper similar to those of the era.Biography:
Frederick Hill Meserve was born in 1865 and was the son of William Neal Meserve, a Civil War veteran. Frederick Meserve began collecting Civil War era photographs in the 1890s to illustrate his father\'s war diary. He became a prominent collector and historian of photographs from the era, especially photographs of Abraham Lincoln.
Meserve is considered to be the first great American photograph collector. Over a period of sixty years as he amassed an extensive collection of photographs documenting the American Civil War as well as American history and culture over the long nineteenth century, Frederick Hill Meserve became the preeminent collector and historian of photographic images of Abraham Lincoln. He sought to identify and preserve every photograph taken of the sixteenth president.
Many years after the 1910 book was published, Meserve and Carl Sandburg incorporated black and white images of the photos into a lithographed layout and re-published a larger circulation of \"The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln\" in 1944.
Meserve died in 1962, and his extensive collection of original photographs, was acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in 2015.