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- ↑ Boston Almanac. 1888
- ↑ Catalogue of articles on display ... Faneuil and Quincy Halls, of the twelfth exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, September and October, 1874. Boston: Rand, Avery, and Co., printers, 1874. Google books
- ↑ Photographic Times, Jan. 1875. Google books
- ↑ Mechanic Association : fourteenth triennial exhibition. Open September and October. Huntington Ave. and West Newton St. Boston. Boston: Rand, Avery, 1881
- ↑ Boston Landmarks Commission. 1984 Survey and planning grant, part 1 - Parker Hill / Mission Hill project completion report. 1985
- ↑ "Metropolitan Museum of Art".
- ↑ "MFA Boston". Archived from the original on 2007-02-24.
- ↑ "Vanishing Georgia".
- ↑ "American Antiquarian Society".
