Charles August Heckscher: A Model Self-Made Man and Merchant in the Atlantic World in the First-Half of the Nineteenth Century

Color Lithograph of Port of Hamburg, 19th century. Litho by F. Courtin, n.d.

Hecksher House, Orange, New Jersey, circa 1860. From Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.

"The Children of Martin Anton Heckscher: Johann Gustav, Wilhelm Moritz, Carl Martin Adolph, and Leopold" by German artist Johann Heinrich…