Shepperd Strudwick Papers, 1827-1944 (bulk 1898-1911).

Summary

Creator:
Strudwick, Shepperd, 1868-1961.
Abstract:

Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) of Hillsborough, N.C., was a fertilizer broker in Norfolk, Va., and Richmond, Va., founder and president of Bellevue Cotton Mills in Hillsborough, N.C., a banker, a postmaster, and a woodcarver. The collection primarily contains personal and business correspondence of Strudwick, 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.

Extent:
1600 items (2.5 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

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.

Scope and content:

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.

Acquisition information:

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

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

No usage restrictions.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

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

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu