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Last Name Furlong

Given Name Charles Wellington

alt. Names C. W. F. ;

Marriage

Children two children

Year born 1874 in Cambridge, MA

Year died 1967

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education graduated from Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1895; 1901-1902 he was a student at Cornell, Harvard, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Simon H. Gage: Life history of the toad, Nature-Study Leaflets 14 (1904): 185 ; C. W. F.: The Gateway To The Sahara: Observations & Experiences in Tripoli (New York 1909) ;

Patronage head of the Art Department at Cornell University 1896-1904; Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (head of Kitty A exp.)

Collaborators

Techniques zoological, natural history & topographic drawing, watercolour & painting; documentary travel photography

Sample(s) http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/photo/Pendleton/ffurlong.html ; www.askart.com/askart/f/charles_wellington_furlong/charles_wellington_furlong.aspx

Archival sources Special Collections & Univ.Archives, Univ.of Oregon Libraries: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23562

Published sources Sally Gregory Kohlstedt: Through books to nature, in: Science in Print, Madison, Wisc. 2012: 169 ;

other explorer, writer, lecturer, artist, college professor, scientist, cowboy, collector,foreign correspondent; 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

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