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- ↑ "Griffithiana". Cineteca D.W. Griffith. June 13, 1988 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (June 13, 1916). "Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ↑ "It Happened in Pikersville · ECHO (Early Cinema History Online)".
