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- Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Painting and Sculpture: Exhibitions. Swedish Art Exhibition [1/30/1916–2/28/1916][01], 1/1916–2/1916. Brooklyn, NY, hereafter abbreviated BMA/DSPE.
- Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Office of the Director (William Henry Fox, 1913–33), hereafter abbreviated BMA/ROD: WHF.
- Records of Homelands Exhibitions. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, abbreviated in-text as MAG Archive. http://mag.rochester.edu/plugins/acrobat/history/homelands/DocsFromMAGArchives2.pdf
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