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- ↑ "At the Ball, That's All: J. Leubrie Hill".
- ↑ "New York Clipper 15 November 1913 — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections". idnc.library.illinois.edu.
- ↑ "Hill, J. Leubrie - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu.
- ↑ "Portrait of J. Leubrie Hill and his famous Dark Town Follies of 1914 and 1915". NYPL Digital Collections.
- ↑ "Hill, J. Leubrie -1916 (John Leubrie) [WorldCat Identities]".
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