Images, 1883-1939 and undated
Scope and Content
The Rideout family papers consist of collected papers, artifacts, and photographs documenting the work, travels, and personal lives of the Rideout family. The glass negatives of Eugene Glasier Rideout comprise the bulk of the collection. The collection has been divided into three series: Papers, Textiles and Artifacts, and Images. The Papers series includes two postcards and a drawing of a Hudson building. The Textiles and Artifacts series comprises various collected artifacts and clothing of the Rideouts, including several pieces of china, two bayonets, a rosewood melodeon, several portraits of the Rideout family, a cap and shawl, and a money purse made by Native Americans for Adelaide A. Rideout while a missionary at the Santee Sioux Reservation. The Images series consists primarily of glass negatives and photographic negatives (photographs and lantern slides are also included). The photographs mainly concern the personal life and travels of Eugene Glasier Rideout and his family and the various locales they lived, worked, and visited, including Hudson, Ohio, Elkhart, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, and Charleston, West Virginia. A set of lantern slides were also found in the collection. The lantern slides appear to include high school diplomas, programs, and photographs of Hudson resident Frederick Clayton Waite (1870-1956). Some of the lantern slides also feature photographs of teachers and superintendents of Hudson Schools as well as Hudson buildings and street views. The Rideout's connection to Fred Waite is unknown.
Dates
- Creation: 1883-1939 and undated
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
From the Collection: 2.3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
The glass negatives were originally stored in individual glass negative boxes. For preservation and protection, the Hudson Library & Historical Society staff removed the glass negatives from the boxes and placed each glass negative in individual storage sleeves. To preserve the box arrangement, each box was assigned a letter and each individual negative stored within the box was given a number. Some of the boxes included descriptions of the box contents (preserved by quotations in the finding aid). Only some of the glass negatives were individually identified. The Hudson Library & Historical Society created an inventory which gives a brief description of the scene in the slides that were not individually identified. The inventory is available at the library.
Repository Details
Part of the Hudson Library & Historical Society Repository