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Arthur Twining Hadley original period silver print photograph. 

This photograph of Arthur Twining Hadley is an original period silver print from the collection of Frederick Hill Meserve, dating circa 1913 or earlier.  It was part of a full volume of photographs produced by Meserve, nearly all of which are direct glass plate negative contact prints. The photograph measures 2.125 x 3.25 inches and is set into the original paper frame, with corners set into slits, making it removable. The paper frame, approximately 2.5 x 4 inches, features an original annotation in the lower border, written in pencil by Meserve.

Fine condition.

Arthur Twining Hadley

Arthur Twining Hadley (April 23, 1856 – March 6, 1930) was an American economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.He was also an author. His Railroad Transportation, Its History and Laws (1885) became a standard work, and appeared in Russian (1886) and French (1887). He testified as an expert on transportation before the Senate committee which drew up the Interstate Commerce Law, and wrote on railways and transportation for the Ninth and Tenth Editions (of which he was one of the editors) of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He wrote for Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (3 vols., 1881–1884), for The American Railway (1888), and for The Railroad Gazette in 1884–1891, and for other periodicals. His idea of the broad scope of economic science, especially of the place of ethics in relation to political economy and business, is expressed in his writings and public addresses. In 1907–1908 he was Theodore Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions at Frederick William University. In 1902, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. He was also an early member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Frederick Hill Meserve

Born in 1865, Frederick H. Meserve was the son of William Neal Meserve, a Civil War veteran. He began collecting Civil War era photographs in the 1890s to illustrate his father's war diary. Meserve became a prominent collector and historian of photographs from this era, especially photographs of Abraham Lincoln. He later collaborated with historian Carl Sandburg to publish "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" in 1944.

Meserve was not only a collector of Civil War photographs but also acquired entire contents of photography studios, including those of Matthew Brady, Sarony, and Nadar. In 1913, he made four sets of his photographs, mostly printed from the original negatives, at a cost of $413 (equivalent to approximately $9500 today). These sets were made for The Morgan Library, The New York Historical Society, and eventually, Harvard. Various smaller groups of images were issued over time, but only these four large sets of his photographs exist, all mounted and described in Meserve's hand on folio pages.

Provenance: This particular photograph comes from one of those four full sets and was produced prior to March 17, 1913. The original collection included the typed letter providing payment to Meserve from Charles W. Turner & Co., Charles Turner, N.Y. Stock Exchange dated March 17, 1913.

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Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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