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- ↑ "Walter Licht | Penn Arts & Sciences Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu.
- ↑ "Civic House - Meet the Staff - Walter Licht | University of Pennsylvania". www.vpul.upenn.edu.
- ↑ Licht, Walter (July 14, 2014). Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400855841 – via Google Books.
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