William Eleroy Curtis

The Capitals of Spanish America. Illustrated William Eleroy Curtis

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Capitals of Spanish America ... Illustrated. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Curtis, William Eleroy; 1888. xv. 715 p.; 8 . 10481.ee.22. Contributor Bio:  Curtis, William Eleroy Curtis, William Eleroy. Journalist. Born in Akron, OH, November 5, 1850. Graduate of Western Reserve College, 1871. On staff of "Chicago Inter-Ocean," 1873-87; Washington correspondent for "Chicago Record," 1887-1901; "Chicago Record-Herald," 1901-11. Special commissioner from United States to Central and South American republics. Executive officer of International American Conference, 1889-90; director of Bureau of American Republics, 1890-93; chief of Latin-American department ad historical section at World's Columbian Exposition, 1891-93; commissioner of Columbian Exposition to Madrid; and special envoy to the Queen Regent of Spain and Pope Leo XIII, 1892. Author: "Tibbalses Folks," "A Summer Scamper," The Life of Zachariah Chandler," "Children of the Sun," "Capitals of Spanish America," "The Land of the Nihilist," "Trade and Transportation," "Handbook to the American Republics," "Guatemala," "Costa Rica," "Ecuador," "Venezuela: a Land Where It is Always Summer," "The United States and Foreign Powers," "The Existing Autographs of Columbus," 1893 (American Historical Association); "Relics of Columbus," "Recent Discoveries Concerning the Early Settlement of America in the Archives of the Vatican," "The Yankees of the East," "Today in France and Germany," "Between the Andes and the Ocean," "The True Thomas Jefferson," "The Turk and His Lost Provinces," "Denmark, Sweden, and Norway," etc. Was member of many learned societies. Died 1911.