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- ↑ Briquelet, Kate (15 June 2014). "How Cleopatra's Needle got to Central Park". New York Post. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ "Hetty Goldman - Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Frances Stackhouse". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2017.