Archives and other resources

 Reach them here for sacramental records, school transcripts, and other needs. 

The National Archives website will get you started. 

From the City of Boston we found this history of Boston City Hospital from its establishment in 1858.

Here you can find the archives of the country's oldest police department.

The study which determined Augusta's death was likely due to an early strain of the Influenza was from the Elsevier Public Health Emergency Collection, April 2020 .  

From Click Americana we found this page of pictures of maternity wear from the 1930s and 1940s. 

From the Gloucester Daily Times, February 2014, it includes details about Charles' East Boston life not included in the book.

Eileen's obit was posted on the website Wicked Local Plymouth. 

From the City of Boston's archives we found the “Guide to the Temporary Home for Women and Children records.,” which details where Little Mister Victory was sent on 8/15/45 after his time at Joy Street Station.

 LONG before somebody coined the term "Massachusetts Miracle, Transitron was a leader in the design and manufacture of transistors in 1950s. Employees from the Melrose location, (on Grove Street, right across from Garvey's Restaurant) helped make an early success of John and Dorothy's place. 

 Featuring some great photos and a lot of personal memories this page, from NorthEndWaterfront.com tell the story of the church where Little Mister Victory was Baptized and named Robert Harrington. 

 This New York Times article details the grim lives awaiting orphans before reforms were enacted, thanks in part to men like Reverend Brace. 

 From the National Library of Medicine comes this fascinating, brief history of the field of Social Work, which would have a great impact on the life of Little Mister Victory.