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References

''Ilion Citizen'', July 27, 1900, page 6

''San Francisco Call'', Volume 87, Number 136, 15 April 1902

American Art Directory, Volume 10, R.R. Bowker, 1913
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Public Art Portland: Thomas Brackett Reed

19th-century American sculptors 1870 births 1925 deaths People from Herkimer, New York 20th-century American sculptors Sculptors from New York (state) {{US-sculptor-stub