Grant ArchivesThe largest collection of original photographs, letters, documents and personal artifacts of General Ulysses S. Grant. Historian and scholar Mr. Keya Morgan has devoted over ten years to collecting and cataloging every known photograph of General Ulysses S. Grant. For the first time there will be a book that will document every known photograph of General Grant. He is near completion of his monumental work Grant in Photographs: Every Known Photograph, which will include dozens of unpublished and rare images, never before seen by the public. A number of the images were obtained directly from the Grant family and once belonged to General Grant himself. The book will also feature photographs from General Grant’s personal family album. Unlike most Grant scholars, Keya Morgan went way beyond simply searching the obvious archives such as The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian and The National Archives. He explored over 300 archives worldwide and went through thousands of auction catalogs dating back to the 1870s. Unfortunately in the past 130 years, many of the original photographs of General Grant ended up in private collections, never to been seen by the public again. Keya Morgan made it his job to not only go through the hundreds of archives, auctions, websites, and catalogs, but also private collections. Mr. Winfred Porter Truesdell first had the vision of this book in 1902 and spent over three decades collecting and compiling Grant photographs. He was able to collect 98 photographs of Grant but unfortunately died before he ever had a chance to publish his book. The Truesdell collection/archives was later bought by Keya Morgan. This project would not be possible without the generous help of many great people and institutions such as Mr. & Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant V, Ulysses S. Grant VI, Millard Grant, Chapman Grant, Matt Grant, Grant King, Jim & Carole Bultema, Dr. John Simon, Stephen Repp, Lloyd Ostendorf, Mark Katz, Winfred Porter Truesdell, The White House, The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian, The National Portrait Gallery, Grant Association, and hundreds of other institutions and individuals. Mr. Jim Bultema has passionately spent over two decades collecting photographs of General Ulysses S. Grant. As a veteran detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, Bultema has employed his detective skills to tracking down rare photographs of General Grant from all over the country. |
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