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[Identification of item], in the Shepperd Strudwick Papers, #3995, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Shepperd Strudwick, Jr. of Union City, New Jersey in 1974.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2011

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• Brick trade--United States--History.
• Drawing, American--New York (State)--20th century.
• Fish-scrap fertilizer.
• Love-letters--19th century.
• Phosphate industry--United States--History.
• Portraits, American.
• Pratt Institute--Students--History.
• Read, Susan Nash.
• Richmond (Va.)--Commerce--History.
• Southern States--Commerce--History.
• Strudwick, Clement Read, 1900-1958.
• Strudwick, Edmund, 1909-1973.
• Strudwick, Shepperd, 1868-1961.
• Strudwick, Shepperd, 1907-

• Francis Nash Papers (#539); Strudwick Family Papers (#701).

Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) of Hillsborough, N.C., was a fertilizer broker in Norfolk and Richmond, Va., founder and president of Bellevue Cotton Mills in Hillsborough, N.C., a banker, a postmaster, and a woodcarver. He was married to Susan Nash Read (1876-1960) of New Bedford, Mass. Read was a teacher at the Kindergarten for the Blind (of Perkins Institute) in Jamaica Plain, Mass., as well as the great-granddaughter of Frederick Nash, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Shepperd and Susan had three sons who are represented in these papers: Clement Read Strudwick (1900-1958), artist; Edmund Strudwick III (1909-1973), artist; and Shepperd Strudwick, Jr., actor.

The collection primarily contains personal and business correspondence of Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), the bulk consisting of correspondence, 1898-1911, between Strudwick and business associates relating to dealings in such commodities as lime phosphate, acid fish scrap, and brick, and related business records. Also included are letters from Strudwick to his fiancee, Susan Nash Read, written during their engagement, 1894-1897. Additionally, there are a few letters by Shepperd Strudwick Junior (1907- ) and other family members. Volumes include an album containing photographs of portraits by Clement Read Strudwick (1900-1958), three sketch books of Edmund Strudwick III (1909-1973) while an art student at the Pratt Institute in New York City, circa 1936-1937, ledgers, notebooks, photographs, certificates, blueprints, and maps of Perry County, Tenn.

• Oversize Volumes (SV-3995/1-2)
• Photographs (PF-3995/1)
• Oversize Papers (OPF-3995/1b)
• Extra Oversize Papers (XOPF-3995/1a)