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- ↑ William Beekman, by Alexander Robertson. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
- 1 2 3 William Dunlap (1834). History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. George P. Scott and Company, Printers. pp. 425–426.
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- ↑ New York Public Library (1909). Hudson-Fulton exhibition: made by the New York Public Library (Lenox library building). September 1909. p. 43.
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