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Summary Information
William Henry Dudley Papers
1859-1941
- Dudley, William Henry, 1869-1941
Wis Mss SC; PH 3401; PH 6106; WHi(X91); WHi(X92)
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 204 photographs, 195 negatives, and 1362 transparencies
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of William Henry Dudley, a University of Wisconsin librarian, lecturer, and amateur photographer including correspondence, primarily with the Dudley family of Albion, Ohio, and Canistota, South Dakota, and photography. The manuscript collection contains Civil War era letters received by Dudley's father, Bela De Loss Dudley, and a personal narrative, written in 1906-1907, about his experiences as a member of Ohio's 17th and 87th Infantry regiments. B.D.L. Dudley's letters comment on family matters and Ohio economic conditions and politics; there is one 1866 letter from George M. Taber, a Union captain turned Southern planter, describing crops and conditions of Negro labor in Decatur, Alabama. W.H. Dudley's own papers include correspondence from his parents, from Agnes L. Potter of South Dakota whom he later married, and from Ella R. Ogden of Knoxville, Tennessee. Few letters deal with his professional career, although job hunting correspondence in 1892 contains several letters from the Hillside Home School.
Dudley's amateur photography was of a high level and is represented by black and white prints and negatives of landscapes in the Wisconsin Dells area; the University Heights neighborhood in Madison; Manistee, Michigan; steamships on Lake Michigan; and boats on the Mississippi River. Additional prints include carte-de-visite portraits of relatives; portraits of W.H. Dudley himself may be found in the Visual Materials Name File. Lantern slides, many of which were hand tinted, were used by Dudley for professional talks. They include aesthetic photography of Europe, and a smaller number that relate to the Wisconsin Dells, Devil's Lake, and the St. Louis World's Fair. Some of these images were photographed by Katherine Allen, Charles N. Brown, Ethel Raymer Edmundson, Reuben Gold Thwaites, and Frederick Jackson Turner and copied by Dudley.
English
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