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- ↑ "History". Hispanic Society of America. June 19, 2015. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Font, Eleanor Sherman | Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies and Index to Deaf Periodicals". liblists.wrlc.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- 1 2 "Eleanor Sherman Font". The New York Times. September 7, 1982. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Eleanor Sherman, Deaf, gg of Thomas Gallaudet & Elizabeth Budd". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. February 4, 1940. p. 74. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
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