William E. Wilson

William Ernest Wilson (1853 – October 1905) was an English photographer who made his name by documenting the American South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His collection of around 750 photographs, described as "truly impressive", were preserved by the Mobile Historic Preservation Society, the Georgia Historical Society and the University of Georgia's Special Collections.

Early life Wilson was born in 1905 in London, England, to James N. Wilson, They later moved to New York. While in Savannah, he was listed in the City Directory as being a landscape photographer, but it is believed he made most of his income from photographing portraits.

In 1981, the University of Georgia Art Department published the 26-page William E. Wilson: Deep South Photographer.

Images of America's Mobile: Photographs from the William E. Wilson Collection was published in 2001.