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- 1 2 Constitution of the San Francisco Mercantile Library, San Francisco: Printed at the Daily Evening News Office, 1854
- ↑ Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, San Francisco: Francis & Valentine, printers, 1874, OL 7122877M
- ↑ Dewey, Melvil; Bowker, Richard Rogers; Pylodet, L.; Leypoldt, Frederick; Cutter, Charles Ammi; Brown, Karl; Weston, Bertine Emma; Wessells, Helen E. (July 1908), Library Journal
- ↑ San Francisco Blue Book. 1919
- ↑ "Building History". Mechanics' Institute.
