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- ↑ Brazil, Eric (December 19, 1998). "New hope for big mural in Mission". SFGate . San Francisco Examiner . Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ↑ Gledhill, Lynda (August 5, 1998). "Mission Mural now a Whitewashed Wall". SFGate . San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ↑ Hendricks, Tyche (September 23, 1998). "Mural missed, Mission miffed". SFGate . Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- "Adolph Schuman Dies at 73; Was Apparel Maker on Coast" UPI, The New York Times, October 2, 1985, retrieved August 1, 2006
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