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- ↑ "Guide to the Records of the Travelers Aid Society of New York". New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
- ↑ Perry, Elizabeth (2000). Belle Moskowitz. Boston: Northeastern University Press, p. 34.
- ↑ McCall, Bertha (1950). History of the National Travelers Aid Association, 1911-1948. New York, pp. 3-5.
- ↑ Cimino, Eric (Winter 2016). "The Travelers' Aid Society: Moral Reform and Social Work in New York City, 1907-1916". New York History. 97 (1): 35, 42–45. doi:10.1353/nyh.2016.0003. S2CID 165850174.
- ↑ McCall. History of National Travelers Aid. pp. 31-33. Cimino, "Travelers' Aid Society," p. 50