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- ↑ "Catalogue of Exhibition, March 1913" (PDF). North-West University Collection. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ↑ "A Society of Firsts". Cape Town Photographic Society. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ↑ "BP's visit to Cape Town in 1912" . Retrieved 20 December 2022.