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- ↑ "Latest Films of all Makers/Biograph Company/For a Wife's Honor", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), September 19, 1908, p. 226. Retrieved November 9, 2021—via the Internet Archive.
- ↑ "For a Wife's Honor". Silent Era. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
