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- ↑ Akeley Motion Picture Camera, Christie's, 4 April 2013
- ↑ Modernist Masterworks to 1925 from 'the deLIGHTed eye', A Private Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, 1985. p. 26
- ↑ Akeley Motion Picture Camera, New York, 1922, Christie's, 4 April 2013
- ↑ Akeley Motion Picture Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ↑ Film Movement, Akeley Camera, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago
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