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- ↑ "Motion Picture Publicity Men Organize". Moving Picture World. August 19, 1916. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, and Essanay
- ↑ "Movie Ad Men in Association". The Fourth Estate. August 5, 1916. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ The 1963 Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures. New York City. 1963. p. 357. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
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