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The Charles W. Furlong collection, 1895-1965

 

Collection number: PH 244

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Biographical Sketch:

Charles Wellington Furlong (1874-1967) was an explorer, writer, and lecturer. Col. Furlong "developed into an extraordinary man who all his long life...was filled with adventure. He was an artist, a college professor, an explorer, a scientist, a cowboy, a collector, a foreign correspondent to name but a few of his 'trades.' "


He was born in Cambridge, MA, and educated at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and other colleges and academies. He was on the faculty of Cornell University, 1896-1904 and 1906-1910. Much of his career was spent on expeditions to various parts of the world for scientific or literary purposes. He was in North Africa, 1904-1905; Tierra del Fuego, 1907-1908; and Venezuela, 1910. In 1915 he was a member of an expedition to the West African islands for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (the Kitty A expedition). During World War I he was an observer with American and Allied forces in the Near East. In 1912-1913 and again in 1920, he was in the American West, observing and participating in rodeos. He later traveled in Africa, the Near East, and South America. Click here for more biographical information.

Scope and Contents:

Some images of rodeo and South America are shelved in the Photograph Collections as PH 244. Additional images are still interfiled with the Manuscript Collections in Ax 698, including rodeo and South American images that relate to a Furlong manuscript or published article. Please consult the Ax 698 finding aid for more information.

Extent: .x linear ft. (x containers)

Provenance:

The collection was donated to the University by Furlong in 1965.

Access restrictions: None.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Charles W. Furlong collection, PH 244-[image number], Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299.

Related collections:

The rodeo images of this collection form part of the Pendleton Group, a series of photograph collections from the Pendleton area, 1880s-1940s. Images from certain photographers, such as Bowman, may be found in many of these collections. The Pendleton Group includes the Lee Drake photographs (PH 021), the Lee Moorhouse photographs (PH 036), the Charles W. Furlong photographs (PH 244), the Walter S. Bowman photographs (PH 004), and the Electric Studio/O.G. Allen photographs (PH 033). Related images are also held in the Print Collection (PH 035) and the Park Weed Willis photographs (PH 288). Other Furlong collections at the University of Oregon include the Charles W. Furlong papers, 1895-1965, Ax 698, and Miscellaneous Subject Files-Box 8.


Other significant Furlong collections are held by Dartmouth College (Stef. Mss. 197, http://olympia.dartmouth.edu/library/ead/html/stem197.html) and the World War I, Hoover Institution (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4z09n712).

Publication rights:

Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish images must be submitted to the Photographs Curator of Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

 

Processed by: Normandy S. Helmer
Date Completed: February 2004


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Last Modified: August 4, 2008
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