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Benes, Peter. For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).
––– . "Machine-Assisted Profile and Profile Imaging in New England after 1803" in Peter Benes, ed., Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast (Boston: Boston University Press, 1995), 138-51.
Carrick, Alice Van Leer. A History of American Silhouettes: A Collector's Guide, 1790–1840 (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968).
Dearborn, Mona Leitheiser. "Isaac Todd's 1804 Alexandria Profiles," Alexandria Chronicle 2: 1 (Spring 1994), 1-24.
Edouart, Auguste, A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses (London: Longman, 1835).
Fallon, Rosemary, and Nora Lockshin, "Which Cracked First: The Inkin' or the Egg? Analysis and Treatment of Ink Deterioration in the William Bache Silhouette Album," Book and Paper Group Annual 27 (2008), 123-25.
Jackson, Emily. Silhouette: A History and Dictionary of Artists (New York: Dover, 1981).
Knipe, Penelope. "Shades and Shadow-Pictures: The Materials and Techniques of American Portrait Silhouettes," The Book and Paper Group Annual 18 (1999), 35-51.
–––. "Paper Profiles: American Portrait Silhouettes," Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 41 (2002), 203-23.
Laughon, Helen, and Nel Laughon. August Edouart: A Quaker Album: American and English Duplicate Silhouettes, 1827–1845 (Richmond, VA: Cheswick Press, 1987).
Miles, Ellen. "1803: The Year of the Physiognotrace" in Peter Benes, ed., Painting and Portrait Making in New England (Boston: Dublin Seminar, 1994), 118-37.
Naeem, Asma, ed., with contributions by Penley Knipe, Alexander Nemerov, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and Anne Verplanck, Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery in association with Princeton University Press, 2018).
Oliver, Andrew. Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839–1844 (Charlottesville, VA: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the University Press of Virginia, 1977).
Reed, Christopher. "Shadow Art: All That's Needed Are Scissors and a Steady Hand," Harvard Magazine 117: 2 (November–December 2014), 104.
Rifken, Blume J. Silhouettes in America, 1790–1840: A Collectors' Guide (Burlington, VT: Paradigm Press, 1987).
Rutherford, Emma. Silhouette (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).
Schwarzchild, Edward, "From the Physiogotrace to the Kinematoscope: Visual Technology and the Preservation of the Peale Family," Yale Journal of Criticism 12: 1 (Spring 1999), 57-71.
Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois. "'Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles': Silhouettes and African American Identity in the Early Republic," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149: 1 (March 2005), 22-39.
Verplanck, Anne Ayer. Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, Ph.D. dissertation, College of William and Mary, 1996.
