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- ↑ "A Finding Aid to the Whitney Halstead papers, 1920-1982".
- ↑ "SOVA: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives".
- ↑ Christine Newman, "When Jim Met Gladys", "Chicago" Magazine, Vol. 60 No. 2, February 2011, pp. 78-81,92,146-148,164
