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Horace Howard Furness collection on the Great Central Fair
Best known as a prominent nineteenth-century Shakespearean scholar, Horace Howard Furness served an active role in the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. This collection contains Furness' papers and ephemera from the U.S. Sanitary Commission's Great Central Fair held i...
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| Collection: | Horace Howard Furness Collection On the Great Central Fair |
| Collection Number: | 0224 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Furness, Horace Howard |d 1833-1912. |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Horace Howard Furness collection on the Great Central Fair |f 1861-1867, undated | |
| 300 | |a 3.7 Linear feet |f ; 10 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 flat file | ||
| 351 | |b This collection is arranged into two series: Series 1. Great Central Fair, 1864-1867, undated, 2.3 linear feet Series 2. Miscellaneous U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1865, undated, 1.4 linear feet | ||
| 500 | |a Processing Information: Box 10 contains ribbons that require more appropriate housing. Boxes 7, 8, and 9 and volumes 1 and 11 require treatment for mold. | ||
| 506 | |a This collection is open to researchers. | ||
| 520 | |a Best known as a prominent nineteenth-century Shakespearean scholar, Horace Howard Furness served an active role in the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. This collection contains Furness' papers and ephemera from the U.S. Sanitary Commission's Great Central Fair held in Philadelphia in June 1864, as well as other materials from the Sanitary Commission and related aid organizations. The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, receipts, ticket vouchers, circulars, broadsides, ribbons, tickets, stamps, photographs, ephemera, pamphlets, newspapers, and reports, and offers insights into the planning and implementation of the Great Central Fair, women's aid efforts during the Civil War, and medical practices and sanitation in the 1860s. | ||
| 520 | |a This collection contains papers and ephemera from the Great Central Fair held by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Philadelphia in June 1864, as well as other materials from the U.S. Sanitary Commission and related aid organizations. The collection offers insights into the planning and implementation of the Great Central Fair, women's aid efforts during the Civil War, and medical practices and sanitation in the 1860s. Series 1 contains materials relating to the Great Central Fair, including correspondence, meeting minutes, receipts, ticket vouchers, circulars, broadsides, ribbons, tickets, stamps, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous records and ephemera from the fair. Series 2 contains miscellaneous materials from the U.S. Sanitary Commission and related aid efforts, including correspondence, circulars, photographs, ephemera, pamphlets, newspapers, and reports. Both series are arranged alphabetically by folder, with pamphlets grouped in boxes 6-8 and oversize materials grouped in Box 9 and Flat File 1. Volumes are arranged by size. | ||
| 524 | 8 | |a Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Horace Howard Furness Collection on the Great Central Fair (Collection 224), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. | |
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of Fairman Rogers Furness and Mrs. Wirt L. Thompson, 1916. | |
| 544 | |a Furness-Bullitt family papers (collection 1903), 1824-1967. Great Central Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission Records (call number Am .696, formerly collection 1062), 1864. Great Central Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission Newspaper Committee Minutes (call number Am .399, formerly collection 865), 1864. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection of Civil War Papers (collection 1546), 1861-1902. Mifflin, Elizabeth scrapbook and autograph book (call number Am .10395), 1820-1882. United States Sanitary Commission Philadelphia Branch collection (collection 679), 1861-1875, undated. | ||
| 544 | |a Sanitary Fairs Collection (McA 5781.F), Library Company of Philadelphia. United States Sanitary Commission Records (MssCol 3101), The New York Public Library. | ||
| 545 | |a Horace Howard Furness is best known as a prominent nineteenth century Shakespearean scholar, but during the Civil War, he served an active role in the United States Sanitary Commission. Furness was born in 1833 to Reverend William Henry Furness, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia and a leading abolitionist, and Annis Jenks Furness. He graduated from Harvard University in 1854, and then spent two years touring Europe, Asia, and Africa with his college roommate, Atherton Blight. He returned to Philadelphia after his trip, and he received his license to practice law in 1859 and married Helen Kate Rogers in 1860. When the Civil War broke out, Furness joined the U.S. Sanitary Commission, which was created in 1861 to help provide food, medical supplies, clothing, and other support to wounded Union soldiers and their families. The Philadelphia branch was a major eastern hub for the Sanitary Commission, and Furness was instrumental in raising funds for the commission. Together with the Relief Committee of the Women's Pennsylvania Branch, the Philadelphia branch of the Sanitary Commission raised more than $1.5 million in cash and supplies for the relief effort. By the end of the war, the Philadelphia branch managed a volunteer hospital, a supply department, a pension agency, and an employment bureau. As part of its fundraising efforts, the Philadelphia branch hosted the Great Central Fair in June 1864. One of the largest such fundraising fairs held during the war, the Great Central Fair was held from June 7 to June 25, 1864, in temporary buildings at Logan Circle. Furness served on the fair's Executive Committee as recording secretary. After the war, deafness precluded Furness from practicing law and he devoted his life to scholarly pursuits. He compiled sixteen volumes of criticism of Shakespeare’s plays and became internationally respected as a Shakespearean scholar. In 1880, he was elected a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and served in that capacity for twenty-three years. He received honorary degrees from Harvard, University of Halle in Germany, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Cambridge University in England. He was also one of the earliest members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1909, he was honored by the Pennsylvania Society of New York, which awarded him the first gold medal presented to a Pennsylvania citizen in recognition of distinguished achievement. He died in 1912 at the age of seventy-eight. | ||
| 555 | |a Finding Aid Available Online: | ||
| 610 | 2 | 7 | |a Western Sanitary Commission |2 NACO Authority File |
| 610 | 2 | 7 | |a Women's Central Association of Relief |2 Local Sources |
| 650 | 0 | |a Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medicine. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sanitation. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Photographs. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Ribbons. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a United States Sanitary Commission |b Philadelphia Branch |e creator | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Horace Howard Furness Collection On the Great Central Fair |l 0224 | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |y Link to finding aid |u http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/f/Furness0224.html |