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- ↑ Museum of Hoaxes, The Disumbrationist School of Art
- ↑ Bridgeford-Smith, Jan (2021). Begged, borrowed, and stolen : true tales of thievery from America's past. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 111. ISBN 9781493052325 . Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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