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- ↑ Trade Catalogues of the Winterthur Museum, Part II, compiled by Eleanor McD. Thompson (1991) OCLC 79677433, 24646855
- ↑ Czecho-Slovak Firm Changes Name, The Music Trades , October 28, 1922, pg. 37, col. 1
- ↑ History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, Volume 2, edited by George Curtis Waldo (Jr.) (1888–1956), S. J. Clarke Publishing Company (1917), pg. 254 OCLC 48612822
- ↑ History of Pittsburgh and Environs American Historical Society (1922), pg. 331 OCLC 1040253
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