[Wood and Furness family graphics collection] [graphic].

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Various Philadelphia photographers, including Samuel Broadbent, W.L. Germon, Frederick Gutekunst, James E. McClees, Henry C. Phillips, Charles H. Spieler, Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, and Mary Wood Wiltsie.

Collection containing scrapbooks, photograph albums, photographs, ephemera, drawings, and printed material compiled by, collected by, and/or of members of the related Wood and Furness families. Family members represented include Rev. William Henry Furness (1802-1896), his son Shakespearean scholar and editor H(orace) H(oward) Furness (1833-1912), H.H. Furness’s son Walter Rogers Furness (1861-1914), and artist George Bacon Wood, Jr. (1831-1910), grandson of Richard Wood III (1755-1822). The Wood and Furness families became related through the marriage of Caroline Wood (1871-1946), daughter of merchant George Wood (1842-1926) and great granddaughter of Richard Wood III, and Charles Radclyffe Furness (1868-1936), son of architect Frank Furness and grandson of Rev. William Henry Furness. Includes three scrapbooks compiled by H.H. Furness between the 1850s and 1910s (P.2021.11.1-3); a ca. 1860s cartes-de-visite album with portrait photographs of the Wood family (P.2021.33.4); a later 19th-/early 20th-century photograph album compiled by Walter Rogers Furness (P.2021.33.5) ; a ca. 1860s cartes-de-visite photograph album compiled by William Henry Furness (P.2021.33.6); and a late 19th-century sketchbook of George Bacon Wood, Jr. (P.2021.33.7) in addition to loose and separately-issued graphic and printed materials.

H.H. Furness scrapbooks (P.2021.11.1-3) contain newspaper clippings (some illustrated and some from press clipping services), obituaries, correspondence with literary figures of the period, book and journal excerpts, billheads, broadsides, invitations, programs, tickets and related ephemera, handwritten notes and poems, and translations. Many of the translations are by H.H. Furness’s sister, author, and translator, Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908). Some of the contents are European in provenance or written in Latin. Some contents contain revisions, edit marks, and annotations. A number of clippings are from Philadelphia newspapers, including North American, the Times, Evening Bulletin, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Press. The volumes document H.H Furness’s literary career, scholarly interests, professional achievements, and his and his family’s accomplishments and social and professional appearances. Authors and correspondents include Irving Browne (1835–1899), Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), William Webb Follett Synge (1826–1891), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), Theodore Martin (1816–1909), Lewis Henry Steiner (1827–1892), William D. Gunning (1828–1888), and John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).

Contents represent the sociopolitics of the era in which published, including content related to (intersections of) race, gender, and class as well as subjects, such as art; cultural and society events; popular literary figures of the period; the Civil War; Rev. Dr. W.H. Furness’s semi-centennial of pastoral service; H.H. Furness’s Wallingford residence, Lindenshade; Furness and Jayne family social appearances; Furness family obituaries and remembrances, including for Rev. Dr. W.H. Furness, Frank Furness, Casper Wister, Jr., Annis Lee Wister, and Caroline Furness Jayne; the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, immigration, parenthood, mortality, employment of women, poetry and music, literary history, religion and theology, philosophy, ethnology, and nature. An 1855 announcement of the sale of enslaved persons from the Waverly and Meredith Plantations in Louisiana (P.2021.33.1.38); an 1864 invitation from the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee to the Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission (P.2021.33.1.14); a broadside of Harvard students killed in the Civil War up to July 1863 (P.2021.33.1.53); specimens of colonial currency (P.2021.33.1.91); an 1832 reprint of the 1770 Paul Revere cartoon “The Bloody Massacre” ((P.2021.33.1.82) ; a watercolor study of a ship accompanying a manuscript poem (“The Fighting Téméraire") in the hand of probably Fanny Kemble (P.2021.33.2.122-123); 1871 caricature illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr. (P.2021.33.2.76-78); newspaper columns about the late 19th and early 20th-century expeditions of ethnologists W.H. Furness III (H.H. Furness’s son), Hiram M. Hiller, Jr., and Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. to Southeast Asia and Oceania ( P.2021.33.2.134 and P.2021.33.3.62-65,74, 151, 155); newspaper columns about Furness III’s 1910 ape and intelligence experiment (P.2021.33.3.123-124, 163-164); a certificate to the Audubon Society of Pennsylvania issued to H.H. Furness in 1896 (P.2021.33.3.79c); newspaper columns about “String Figures; A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands,” written by H.H. Furness’s daughter and ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne (1873-1909) (P.2021.33.3.87a.1-3 and 88); a flyer promoting a benefit lecture on astronomy with stereographs and provided by H.H. Furness’s son H.H. Furness, Jr. (1865-1930) (P.2021.33.3.58a); and an 1902 article "Philadelphia in Slavery Days. Recollections of a Tumultuous Period, as Described by General Mulholland and Isaac H. Clothier" ((P.2021.33.3.71-72) are a few of the materials that form the expansive content. Other visual materials included in the volumes are late 19th-century advertisements for Wanamaker & Brown and Hartshorn's Self Acting Shade Rollers (Sheppard, Arrison & Sheppard, Carpets, Curtains, &c. Philadelphia, Pa.).

Wood family photograph album (P.2021.33.4) contains over 30 bust-, half-, and full-length cartes-de-visite, studio portrait photographs, with some inserted before the first page of the album. Some of the photographs are reproductions of daguerreotypes. Sitters include George Wood (1842-1926); his wife Mary Wood (1844-1937); his brothers Stuart Wood (1853-1914), Ralph (Randolph) Wood (1845-1876), and Walter Wood (1849-1934); his mother Juliana Wood (1810-1885); his sisters Julia Wood (1847-1929) and Caroline Wood (1828-1857); and his uncle George Bacon Wood (1797-1879). Volume also includes portraits of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, shoeshine boys Jackamena and Daniel Porter, and genre imagery of placards reading “May every lead within this book from title page to end recall to mind, the form, the look, the memory of a friend" and “The End.”

Walter Rogers Furness photograph album (P.2021.33.5) contains over 270 professional and amateur, primarily portrait photographs, taken between ca. 1870s and ca. 1903. Mostly portraits of family and friends, some of the sitters are posed in groups or casually. Some sitters have also appropriated traditional Japanese attire or appear in gender non-conforming attire. A number of photographs depict family pets. Sitters include Walter Rogers Furness (as boy and adult); his younger brothers Horace Howard Furness, Jr. (1865-1930) and William Henry Furness (1866-1920); his wife Helen Kate Bullitt (1867-1913); cousin Charles Radclyffe Furness; grandparents Dr. William Henry Furness and Annis Pulling Furness (1803-1885); sister Caroline Augusta Furness Jayne (1875-1909); daughter Helen Kate (1889-1965); uncle Frank Furness (1839-1912); cousin Mary K. Furness (d. 1897); aunt Annis Lee Furness (d. 1904); first cousin once removed George Wood Furness (1868-1936) as a child; N.S. Duer; photographer and artist Jane Byrd McCall; Mask & Wig performers C. F. McMichael, G. W. Kendrick, and C.H. Frazier; architect James Wilson Fassitt; Mrs. Cornwallis West; Eustace H. Miles; book collector Morris Longstreth Parish; founder of the women's automobile driving club, Moviganto Klaubo, Madge Corlies; C.H. Eisenbrey; Fairman Rogers; and the Philadelphia Gun Club (1887). Album also contains celebrity portrait photographs, including bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, actress Lillian Russell, and Queen Victoria and family; annotated portrait photographs of Asian men and women taken 1893-4 and including “Mr. & Mrs. Morimoto,” “Hattori,” “Genl. Fukushima,” and “O’Take San”; reproduction of the Emil Neide painting “Die Lebensmuden” (The Tired of Life); images of animals at a circus; St. Paul Lawn Tennis Club; and sketched caricatures of popular women performers of the era arranged next to a corresponding studio portrait. Performers include Maud Adams, Virginia Harnit, Agnes Booth, Caroline Misspell Hoyt, and Johnstone Bennett. Bennett wears gender non-conforming clothing and is attired in a tuxedo. Views of the vessels “The Magnolia” and “S.S. Etruria” also comprise the contents.

W.H. Furness cartes-de-visite album (P.2021.33.6) contains over 80 portrait photographs, several depicting political and military celebrities of the Civil War era. Sitters include William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, and David Farragut. Album also contains popularly circulated imagery related to the anti-slavery movement, including formally enslaved men “Gordon” and Wilson Chinn and children Isaac White, Rosina Downs, and Rebecca Huger. Interior and exterior views of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia also form the album.

George Bacon Wood sketchbook (P.2021.33.7) contains over 25 sketches executed between ca. 1888 and ca. 1895 and primarily depict landscapes. Many of the views depict built structures, including churches. Some works are titled and most show views of the West, including Southern California and Salt Lake City, Utah. Titles include: China Town Fresno S. C.; St. Davids 1715; Green Bank; Lake Michigan 1888; Hotel Garden, Pasadena April 30th. 1895; Monterey Mission, Calif. May 19th, 1895 ; and View from my window, Knutsford Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah. May 24th, 1895.

Photographs (P.2021.33.8-41) include over 30 portrait photographs, primarily depicting members of the Wood family and dated between the 1860s and early 1900s. Several portraits portray Juliana Wood (1847-1924) and Mary Sharpless Hunn Wood (1844-1937). A small number depict unidentified sitters, including a baby. Some photographs were probably taken by Mary Wood Wiltsie (1883-1974), daughter of George Wood (1842-1926). A few corresponding negatives are included with the photographs.

Ephemera, drawings, and printed material (P.2021.33.42-67) include souvenirs and keepsakes issued between 1887 and 1903, such as menus and programs from social and professional events, associated with the professional and personal life of George Wood (1842-1926). The materials relate to the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia National Bank, the Union League, as well as the commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1887. The latter includes a program with etchings by Max and Albert Rosenthal. Collection also includes a copy of Walter Rogers Furness’s Composite Photography Applied to the Portraits of Shakespeare (Philadelphia: Robert Lindsay, 1885) gifted from the author to his later wife Helen K. Bullitt, a small number of loose newspaper clippings, and an 1898 caricature probably by Walter Rogers Furness and depicting University of Pennsylvania Provosts William Pepper and Charles Custis Harrison, titled "The Past + the Present."

Inventory of collection available as in-house database.

Gift of Radclyffe and Maria Thompson.