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{{citation}}:|author6=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ ”I was so happy so many were coming around, some in fact making Limelight their ‘home’; Arthur Lavine, Lew Parrella, Leon Levinstein, May Mirin, Louis Stettner, David Vestal, Hella Hammid, Simpson Kalisher, Morris Jaffe…” Helen Gee (1997) Limelight: a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties: A Memoir. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. ISBN 978-0826318176.
- ↑ mentioned in American Museum of Natural History in-house magazine Grapevine Vol XXIX, No.3 as “May Mirin-photographer of merit and Sunday painter”