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- ↑ "The Atlantic City Free Public Library - Florence Valore Miller". www.acfpl.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ↑ Writer, NICHOLAS HUBA, Staff (6 August 2016). "A.C. Historical Museum at Garden Pier to close today". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Frank Legato; Jennifer Shermer Pack; David Verdini (2005). Atlantic City: In Living Color. Indigo Custom Publishing. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-0-9725951-6-2.
- ↑ Perez, Heather. "100 Years of the Garden Pier". acmuseum.org. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ↑ Perez, Heather. "Miss America 1921". acmuseum.org. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ↑ HUBA, NICHOLAS (6 August 2016). "A.C. Historical Museum at Garden Pier to close today". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ↑ Wilk, Tom (2019-09-03). "A New Way to Experience Atlantic City". New Jersey Monthly. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
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