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  • Anne Farrow, Hartford Courant-The Last Slaves, 2002.
  • Bill Ryan, Two Towns-Sad Legacy of Ivory Trade, New York Times, 1998.
  • CT Explored: Ivoryton, by Christopher Pagliuco
  • Connecticut History Illustrated
  • Deep River and Ivoryton, By Don Malcarne, Edith DeForest, Robbi Storms, 2002
  • Elephant Slaughter, African Slavery And America's Pianos, NPR, August 18, 2014.
  • History In Black And Ivory: New Series Traces Towns' Key Industry, September 25, 1998, by Claudia Van Nes.
  • Ivory Cutting: The Rise and Fall of a CT Industry, Connecticut History.org, Donald L. Malcarne and Brenda Milkofsky.
  • Legacies of White Gold: An Ivoryton Library Production, 2006, Looking Back:History of Ivoryton Inn in the 'town that elephants built', E Alvord
  • Paula Kahumbu, Deep River and the African Elephant National Geographic, 2013
  • Register Of The Pratt, Read Corporation Records, 1838 - 1990 by Craig A. Orr.
  • Strange Behaviors, Richard Conniff, March 2012
  • The Rise and Decline of Welfare Capitalism and the Emergence of a Union in Ivoryton, Connecticut: 1900-1941, Tom Furrer, Wesleyan University.
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