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            <text>"John Cotton Dana." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, no. 8, 1929, p. 215.&#13;
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Kern, Steven. "The Modern American Museum Was Invented in Newark." Antioch Review, vol. 74, no. 2, Spring 2016, pp. 271-284.&#13;
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Maffei, Nicolas . "John Cotton Dana and the Politics of Exhibiting Industrial Art in the US, 1909-1929." Journal of Design History, no. 4, 2000, pp. 301. &#13;
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William, Dane J.. "John Cotton Dana: His Art Interests &amp; Influence." Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, no. 2, 1997, pp. 3.&#13;
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