Copy of an Announcement from
The Commonwealth Museum
That I received October 1973
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Meserve's Market in Kennebunk, Maine
Photographs taken outside Meserve's market
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Michael Meserve of Farmington, New Hampshire suggested that I add this link.
is located in Biddeford, Maine.
Michael states ... I visited several times as a boy and I've taken my own wife and son there as an adult. There are some great stories about "Meserves Crossing" on the trolly ride tour.
The Meserve Gallery
The Meserve Gallery, established in 1982 is located on the main floor of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. It contains modern prints made from the original Brady negatives that were collected by Frederick Hill Meserve (1866-1962). Mr. Meserve a dedicated amateur historian, first became interested in historical photographs while searching for images with which to illustrate the Civil War memoirs of his father, William Neal Meserve, a Union army solider. In 1897 Meserve purchased photographs at a New York auction house and from then on collected as many Civil War photographs as he could find. The core of his collection was a large group of Brady negatives purchased in 1902, many still in their original storage boxes. Meserve spent the last years of his life organizing over 200,000 photographs and negatives of the period.