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The Doolittle home in Upper Darby, PA, 1907.
Credit: H.D. Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University and New Directions Publishing
In 1896, Charles Doolittle left Lehigh University in Bethlehem to become director of the Flower Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania. H.D. was ten when her family moved to this home in Upper Darby.