Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Hester Merritt Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Hester Merritt This is the glass negative of Hester Merritt. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s. Tags: c. 1910, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, Decatur IL, Glass Negative, Hester Merritt, negative, Wasson Studios, woman, young woman Featured Item Photographs of 215 W. Prairie Ave. Photographs of 215 W. Prairie St. This house was erected by A.T. Hill and torn down in 1926.