Episode Source Material:
- Third Floor - Rhode Island - Nellie M. Gorbea
- The Man Atop the Statehouse
- The Independent Man, "Hope," Rhode Island State House
- Rhode Island State House
- My Turn: Patrick T. Conley: Taking down the Independent Man
- Head of the Independent Man – URI's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Rhode Island State House
- State Capitol Buildings, Statues of Men at the Top
- RI's Independent Woman
- In search of the Rhode Island independent woman
- New York Tribune | April 17, 1921 | Notables to Aid in Unveiling Bolivar Statue
- Newport Mercury | The Grist Mill
- BOLIVAR'S STATUE UNVEILED.; CEREMONIES AND ADDRESSES AROUND THE SITE IN CENTRAL PARK. (Published 1884)
- DISLIKE BOLIVAR’S STATUE: National Sculpture Society Officials Write to the Park Board Condemning the Model
- That Statue of Bolivar
- Statues of New York
- New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, April 12, 1921, Page 8, Image 8
- The Simon Bolivar Statue - Central Park at 6th Avenue