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And This Is Eleanor Early!
Early at the Empire State Building, New York City, undated, box 14, folder 23, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Eleanor Early was born April 27, 1895 in Newton, Massachusetts. She grew up in Wellesley and attended Miss Wheelock’s School …
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Abbott. David Crockett: His Life and Adventures. American Pioneers and Patriots Series.
Asbjørnsen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Bacon. Historic Pilgrimages in New England: Among Landmarks of Pilgrim and Puritan Days and of the Provincial and Revolutionary Periods. New York: Silver Burdett & Company, c.1898.
Baker. The United States Secret Service in the Late War. Boston, Mass.: H.J. Hetherington & Co., 1890.
Ballerini. The Hunter of the Alps. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Company, 1879.
Ballou. Due South; or Cuba Past and Present. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885 (or 1888).
Bartlett. From Egypt to Palestine through Sinai. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879.
Bayne. On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara. New York: Harper, 1902.
Bell. The Spell of the Caribbean Islands. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1926.
Bonnefont. Aventures de six Français aux Colonies. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1890.
The Hill Tribes of Fiji: a record of forty years’ intimate connection with the tribes of the mountainous interior of Fiji. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1922.
Brown. Gypsy Fires in America. New York and London: Harper, 1924.
Buchanan. Three Years of War in East Africa. London: J. Murray, 1919.
Burton. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893.
Butterworth. Young Folks History of Boston. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881.
Casey. The Land of Haunted Castles. New York: The Century Co., 1921.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy and the Border Province. London: I. Pitman & Sons, 1909.
Cesnola. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878.
Chalmers. Pioneering in New Guinea. London: The Religious Tract Society. 1887.
Conder. Heth and Moab: Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882. London: Bentley, 1883.
Connolly. Out of Gloucester. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902.
Crawford. Old Boston in Colonial Days. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1922.
Custer. My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874.
Davidson. The Romance of the Spanish Main. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1916.
De Amicis. Constantinople. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1878.
De la Ramé. The Nürnberg Stove. Boston: J. Knight Company, 1892.
Dellenbaugh. The Romance of the Colorado River. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.
Du Chaillu. My Apingi Kingdom: with life in the great Sahara. New York: Harper, 1871.
Du Chaillu. Wild Life Under the Equator: narrated for young people. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870.
Duysters. Opals from a Mexican Mine. New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1896.
Fraser. Round the World on a Wheel. London: Methuen, 1899.
Cumming. Fire Fountains: the Kingdom of Hawaii, its Volcanoes, and the History of its Mission. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1883.
Cumming. Two Happy Years in Ceylon. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1892.
Hall. Picturesque Ireland: pen and pencil pictures of the great wonderland. Boston: C.E. Brown, [18–?]).
Hearn. A Japanese Miscellany. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1901.
Henderson. Jamaica; Painted by A. S. Forrest; Described by John Henderson. London: A. and C. Black, 1906.
Holloway. The Ladies of the White House. Philadelphia: Bradley, 1881.
Hood. From Nowhere to the North Pole. London: Chatto and Windus, 1875.
James. A Little Tour in France. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900.
Johnson. Cannibal-land; Adventures with a Camera in the New Hebrides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922.
Jones. The Story of Captain Cook’s Three Voyages Round the World. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1870?].
Judson. Myths and Legends of the Great Plains. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1913.
Keane. Asia, with Ethnological Appendix. London: E. Stanford, 1882.
Keane. Central and South America. London: E. Stanford, 1909.
Kelly. Burma Painted & Described. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912.
Larcom. Wild Roses of Cape Ann: and other poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882.
Leader. Through Jamaica with a Kodak ….with 129 illustrations. Bristol: J. Wright & Company, 1907.
Leland. The Algonquin Legends of New England. London: S. Low Marston Searle & Rivington, 1884.
Lovett. Irish Pictures: drawn with pen and pencil. London: Religious Tract Society, 1888.
Christmas Holidays at Chestnut Hill / by Cousin Mary. Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company, 1853.
Mason. Columbus Came Late. New York: The Century Co., 1931.
May. Quinnebasset Girls. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1878.
Miller. Reference Book of Ireland. New York: Cooke & Cobb, 1877.
Murray. Lives of the Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America. New York: J. Sheehy, 1882.
Nansen. Eskimo Life. London: Longmans Green & Co., 1894.
O’Reilly. Heroic Spain. New York: Duffield and Company, 1910.
Peary. The North Pole: its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1910.
Pouchet. The Universe; or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little. New York: Scribner, 1871.
Roberts. The Book-Hunter in London. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1895.
Robinson. A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations. New York: P.F. Collier, 1887.
Rogers. A History of Ancient Persia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.
Roosevelt. African Game Trails, an Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910.
Smith. The Romance of the South Pole: Antarctic voyages and explorations. London: T. Nelson, 1900.
Somerville. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. London: W. H. Allen, 1893.
Stark. Stark’s Guide-Book and History of Trinidad including Tobago, Granada, and St. Vincent. Boston: J. H. Stark, 1897.
Stephens. A History of Gibraltar and its Siege. London: Provost, 1870.
Strangford and Smythe. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, including a Visit to Palmyra. London: Macmillan and, 1874.
Sweetser. King’s Handbook of Boston Harbor. Cambridge, Mass.: Moses King, 1883.
Thonner. Du Congo à l’Ubangi: Mon Duexième Voyage dans l’Afrique Centrale. Bruxelles: Misch & Thron, 1910.
Van Dyke. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1908.
Vincent. The Land of the White Elephant: sights and scenes in south-eastern Asia. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874.
Waddell. Among the Himalayas. Westminster: A. Constable & Co., 1899.
Wakefield. New Zealand after Fifty Years. New York: Cassell & Company Limited, 1889.
Whiting. Paris the Beautiful. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908.
Wiggin. A Summer in a Cañon : a California story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1890.
Williams. Plain-Towns of Italy: the cities of old Venetia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
Wood. In the Valley of the Rhone. London: Macmillan, 1899.
Wright. The Empire of the Hittites. London: Nisbet, 1884.
Zwemer. Arabia: The Cradle of Islam. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1900.
Moraes. Africa Occidental : Album Photographico E Descriptivo. Lisboa: David Corazzi, 1885.