67. Janet Sobel’s Application for Social Security Account Number dated December 7, 1953; see also Goldberg, article in American National Biography, 352.

68. Brooklyn (NY) Eagle, November 10, 1946.

69. Gregory, “Plainfield’s Primitive Painter.”
           70. Levin, “Janet Sobel,” 10.
           71. “Superfund Emergency Response, Actions Library,” demonstration pages of Potomac River Media, http://www.rivermedia.com/consulting/er/hazsubs/sitelib/2cea.htm (first accessed July 8, 2001).
           72. Gregory, “Plainfield’s Primitive Painter.”

73. Ibid.

74. U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, “Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910—Population,” census place: Manhattan Ward 17, New York, New York; roll: T624_1031; page: 7B; enumeration district: 1675; image: 922, http://www.ancestry.com.

75. Goldberg, article in American National Biography, 351; Leah Sobel and Sol Sobel, fax to author, January 22, 2001.

76. Levin, “Janet Sobel,” 10.

77. National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region (New York City), Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals on Microfilm.

78. Gregory, “Plainfield’s Primitive Painter.”
           79. Gibson, Abstract Expressionism, 186.

80. Levin, “Janet Sobel,” 14n24.

81. Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the Years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore (reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2001; New York: Immigration Information Bureau, 1931); http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/index.htm.