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- ↑ "Florence Lawrence – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
- ↑ Brown, Kelly R. (2014-09-18). Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1317-8.
- ↑ Motion Picture Story Magazine. Macfadden-Bartell. February 1928.
- ↑ Braff, Richard E. (1999). The Universal Silents: A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0287-8.
