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Alexander, Sally Hobart. Mom's Best Friend.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992.
Bernstein, Susan. The Dogs that Help the Blind.
Dog Digest, 1975, p. 223.
Boulkind, Mae. Seeing Eye Dog.
Parade, Feb. 18, 1945, pp. 8-11.
Raising Pups to Lead the Blind.
Boy's Life, July 1990.
Campbell, Mary Dranga. Dog Guides for the Blind.
What of the Blind? A Survey of the Development & Scope of Present-Day Work With the Blind, Vol. 2, edited by Helga Lende.
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 1941. pp. 155-64.
An Expanded View of Job Independence.
Careers & the disAbled, Fall 1993, p. 28.
Cheever, Raymond. When Did Dog Guides Discover America?
Accent on Living, Spring Issue, 1979, pp. 88-91.
Chevigny, Hector. My Eyes Have a Cold Nose.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. Paperbound, 1962. pp. xiii, 273.
Chevigny, Hector. A User's View of the Guide Dog as a Travel Aid.
Blindness: Modern Approaches to the Unseen Environment, edited by Paul A. Zahl.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, pp. 378-85.
Chevigny, Hector & Braverman, Sydell. The Adjustment of the Blind.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. pp. xi, 320.
Christensen, W. A. Almo "His Master's Eyes"
Los Angeles, Almo, "His Master's Eyes" Co., 1935.
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Coon, Nelson. A Brief History of Dog Guides for the Blind.
Compiled from the resources available at the Blindiana Reference Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts.
The Seeing Eye, Inc., 1959.
Derr, Mark. Dog's Best Friend (Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship).
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. pp. 298-305.
Di Cesare, Sandra. The New Jersey PRIDE Awards.
New Jersey Monthly, May 1991, p. 57.
The Birth of the Special Pet Diet.
Dog World, March 1991, pp. 175-176.
Seeing Eye Matches 10,000th Dog Guide.
Dog World, April 1991.
Seeing Eye Dogs: Their Breeding & Management.
Dog World, Oct. 1970, p. 32.
Ebeling, Willi. The Guide Dog Movement.
Blindness: Modern Approaches to the Unseen Environment, edited by Paul A. Zahl.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, pp. 366-77.
Eustis, Dorothy H. Dogs as Guides for the Blind.
Imprimerie Delacoste-Borgeaud, October 20, 1929.
Eustis, Dorothy H. The Seeing Eye.
Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 5, 1927, p. 43.
Falconer, Barbara. Bright Faith.
Good Housekeeping, May 1969, pp. 88-91.
Ford, Lee E. Animal Welfare Encyclopedia. "Guide Dog Training & Schools in U.S. and Abroad," 1975.
Ford Association.
Dogs at Work.
Fortune, July 1933. pp. 66-67.
Fox, Monroe. Blind Adventure.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1946. p. 205.
Frank, Morris S. & Clark, Blake. First Lady of The Seeing Eye.
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1957. p. 156.
Kingswood, Surrey (England): The World's Work, Ltd., 1958. p. 224.
Condensation, Reader's Digest, Jan., 1957. p. 80.
Paperbound, New York: Pyramid Books, 1964. p. 160.
Gallup, Ann. The Ultimate Working Dog.
Popular Dogs, May 1974, pp. 32-35.
Gregory, Nicole. Puppy Love.
3-2-1 Contact, March 1992, pp. 22-25.
My Escape from Darkness.
Guideposts, April 1979, pp. 6-10.
Hamilton, Betty. Charitable Canines.
RPh. M.D. Publications, Inc., Jan. 1979, pp. 51-54.
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Heppner, Elizabeth P. Inky: Seeing Eye Dog (Original title: Inki).
U.S.A. The Macmillan Company with Scholastic Book Services, 1957, 1971.
Hickford, Jessie. I Never Walked Alone.
New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1977.
Hocken, S. Emma and I.
Good Housekeeping, March 1978, p. 99.
Holmes, Burnham. The First Seeing Eye Dogs.
New York: Contemporary Perspectives, 1978. p. 48.
Humphrey, Elliott. Dogs Who Lead.
Atlantic Monthly, March 1937, pp. 303-310.
Humphrey, Elliott and Warner, Lucien. Working Dogs — An attempt to produce a strain of German Shepherds which combines working ability and beauty of conformation
Foreward by Raymond Pearl
Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press 1934.
Johnson, Helen Lossing & Johnson, Margaret S. Vicki. A Guide Dog. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1946. p. 87.
Kinsley, Eva. Portrait of a Pioneer..
Dog Fancy, Oct. 1970, pp. 24-28.
Knight, Ruth Adams. A Friend in the Dark: The Story of a Seeing Eye Dog.
New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1937. pp. vii, 65.
Latimer, Heather. The Making of a Seeing Eye Dog — Part I — Children Who Raise Seeing Eye Dogs.
Dogs, May 1976, p. 30.
Latimer, Heather. The Making of a Seeing Eye Dog — Part II.
Dogs, July 1976, p. 32.
Latimer, Heather. The Making of a Seeing Eye Dog — Part III.
Dogs, Sept. 1976, p. 46.
Lenehan, Michael. Four Ways to Walk a Dog.
Atlantic Monthly, April 1986, pp. 35-48, 89-99.
Linehan, Edward J. Dogs Working for Man.
National Geographic, Aug. 1958, pp. 190-233.
William Debetaz Trains Seeing Eye Dogs.
Look, Feb. 10, 1942, pp. 52-57.
Long, Michael E. The Sense of Sight.
National Geographic, Nov. 1992, pp. 3-41, 146.
Malcolm, Andrew H. How Aces Was Trained for His Special Calling.
The New York Times, Dec. 17, 1991.
Masny, Larissa A. Insight into The Seeing Eye.
Blue Jean, March/April 1997, pp. 10-11.
*Mason, Jolie [as told to Oona Short]. Not Alone Anymore.
FIRST, December 2, 1991, pp. 131-132.
McCune, Marjorie Bennett. Toni's Tale.
New York: Carlton Press, 1968. p. 31.
Meek, Col. S.P. Pat. The Story of a Seeing Eye Dog.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1947, p. 208.
Mitchell, Celeste. Quinn, a Woman's Best Friend.
Family Circle, September 17, 1996, pp. 120-126.
Moore, Eva. Buddy - The First Seeing Eye Dog.
New York: Scholastic Inc., 1996.
The Seeing Eye.
Newsweek, May 9. 1936. p. 29.
The Seeing Eye.
North American Veterinarian, Sept. 1946, p. 467.
Osborn, Kevin. A Day in the Life of a Seeing Eye Dog Trainer.
Mahwah, New Jersey: Troll Associates, 1991.
Perry, David. The Seeing Eye.
Dog Fancy, Feb. 1971, p. 18.
A Portrait of Dorothy Eustis: She Introduced the Seeing Eye Dog to America, A Portrait of the Seeing Eye Dog Today and Women Carry on the Vision of The Seeing Eye.
Perspectives, January/February 1994, pp. 19-22.
Pollack, Merrill. These Kids Raise Puppies for the Blind.
Saturday Evening Post, July 24, 1954, p. 36.
Putnam, Peter. Love In the Lead — The Fifty-Year Miracle of The Seeing Eye Dog.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1979.
Second edition, University Press of America, 1997.
Putnam, Peter. The Triumph of The Seeing Eye.
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. pp. xii, 178.
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Putnam, Peter. Cast Off the Darkness. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1957. p. 253.
Condensation, Ladies Home Journal, April 1957. p. 68.
*Putnam, Peter. The Miracle of a Blind Man & His Dog.
New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1954, p. 22.
Putnam, Peter. Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam!
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1952.
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Robinson, Jeannine. Miracle Makers of The Seeing Eye.
Dogs in Canada, June 1979, pp. 12-14.
Ryan, Michael. How One Young Man Says Thank You.
Parade, April 7, 1991, pp. 4-7.
Ryden, Hope. An End to a Dog's Happy Childhood.
Look, Oct. 31, 1967, pp. 16-20.
A Dog's Life.
Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 18, 1928, p. 38.
Dogs on Patrol.
Saturday Evening Post, July 5, 1930, p. 16.
Scheffer, Victor B. The Seeing Eye.
New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1971.
Searl, Helen Hulett. Dogs that Lead the Blind.
Reader's Digest, July 1930. pp. 231-232.
Reprinted from Woman's Journal, May 1930.
Simon, Philip J. Sight Unseen.
Chicago: Priam Press, 1952. p. 165.
*Spiotta-DiMare, Loren. The Seeing Eye.
Careers& the disAbled, Spring 1991, pp. 94-98.
Stein, John S. A Visit to The Seeing Eye.
Purina Kennel News, Vol. 1, 1976.
*Stewart, Barbara. Ruth and Loyal: A New York Love Story.
The New York Times, November 13, 1994.
Strong, Austin. I Learned What it Means to be Blind.
Saturday Evening Post, April 29, 1944, p. 24.
Tarkington, Booth. The Seeing Eye.
Ladies Home Journal, Sept. 1937, p. 16.
Thornton, Kim Campbell & Guidry, Virginia Parker. For the Love of Dogs. Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Ltd., 1997. pp. 154-157.
Vosburgh, F.G. Dogs of Duty & Devotion.
National Geographic, Dec. 1941, pp. 769-775.
Vogel, Bertram. Shepherds of Sight.
Redbook, Nov. 1946, p. 56.
Welsh, Richard L., Ph.D. & Blasch, Bruce B., Ph.D. (ed.). Foundations of Orientation & Mobility.
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 1980.
Note: Chapter 17 - "Dog Guides" - by Robert H. Whitstock, vice president of programs, The Seeing Eye, Inc.
Werntz, George Jr. A Living Philosophy: Its Significance to the Agency Serving Blind Persons.
Blindness, 1967, edited by Isabella S. Diamond. Washington: American Association of Workers for the Blind, 1967, pp. 1-10.
White, Aileen. Puppy Love.
Seventeen, Sept. 1980.
*Whitstock, Robert H. A Dog Guide User Speaks on Mobility.
The New Outlook, Jan. 1962, pp. 19-23.
Wilsdon, Christina. Puppies with a Purpose.
National Geographic World, March 1997, pp. 30-31.
Wolf, Bernard. Connie's New Eyes.
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1976.
Pets that Give More than Love.
Woman's Day, April 2, 1991.
Wood, Peggy. A Pup with a Purpose.
Reflection, July-Aug. 1975, pp. 22-23.
Woollcott, Alexander. The Good Companions.
Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1936.
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