Interviews:
ABDALLAH, Constance Joan (Waskiewicz) and Abdallah, Alphonse Kalil, by Constance C. Mendes, Swansea, MA, May 27, 2015.
ABDOW, Olivia Raposo (Terceira), by John J. Conforti, Catholic Memorial Home, December 10, 2014.
ALMEIDA, Delores (Silvia), by Joyce B. Rodrigues, Somerset Ridge Center, June 10, 2015.
AMARAL, Hortensia “Ester” Pacheco Ribeiro, by Joyce B. Rodrigues, Fall River Historical Society, November 12, 2014.
CORREIRA, Mary Vincent (Arruda), by Joyce B. Rodrigues, Westport, MA, October 17, 2015.
DESCHENES, Marie Lillian, by Joyce B. Rodrigues, Fall River, MA, August 22 and 29, 2015.
HARNETT, Marita Frances (Vokes), by John J. Conforti, Catholic Memorial Home, December 3, 2014.
ROCHEFORT, Marie Eva (Gagnon), by Ann Rockett-Sperling, Fall River, MA, July 29, 2015.
SOITOS, Ledora (Isidorio), by Ann Rockett-Sperling, Taunton, MA, June 3, 2015.
SOUCY, Michalina “Ruth” (Stasiowski), by William A. Moniz, Somerset Ridge Center, June 19, 2015.
Newspapers:
Fall River Herald News, Microfilm Collection, The Charlton Library of Fall River History, Fall River Historical Society.
Fall River Herald News, Reference and Special Collections, the Fall River Public Library, at: http://fallriverlibrary.org/reference.html.
Oral history guidelines:
Interviewing Guidelines, UCLA’s Oral History Program, at: http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/interviewGuidelines.html
Mercier, Laurie and Madeline Buckendorf, Using Oral History in Community History Projects, Oral History Association Pamphlet Series #4, 2010, at:
http://www.oralhistory.org/publications/pamphlet-series/.
Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral History, Oral History Association, 2009, at:
http://www.oralhistory.org/about/principles-and-practices/
http://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/OHA_principles_standards.pdf.
Oral history collections:
American Memory, Library of Congress, at: https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html.
Shifting Gears, Digital Oral History at the Center for Lowell History, The University of Massachusetts Lowell, at: http://library.uml.edu/clh/OH/SHIFT/OH1.htm.
Voices of Labor Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections Department, Pullen Library, Georgia State University, at: http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/Labor/voices/VoLprogram.htm.
Oral History Projects, Archives and Special Collections, Claire T. Carney Library, UMASS Dartmouth, at: http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/oral-history-projects.
Published sources:
Ashton, Barbara. Of Men and Money and the Fall River National Bank, 1825-1975. Fall River: Privately printed, 1975.
Belanger, Marc N. A Guide to Fall River’s Mills and Other Industrial Sites. Taunton: Marc N. Belanger, 2013.
Bendure, Zelma & Pfeiffer, Gladys. America’s Fabrics: origin and History, Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947.
Blewett, Mary H. The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
Blewett, Mary H. Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Brand, Donald Robert. Corporatism and the Rule of Law: A Study of the National Recovery Administration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Baptisms of Saint Anne Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1869-1996, Vols. 1 – 4. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 1999.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Marriages of Saint Anne Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1869-1996, Vols. 1 – 4. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 1999.
Burkhart, Janice, and Letourneau, Goetz (Eds.). Marriages of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1888-1986. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 1987.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Marriages of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1892-1995. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 1996.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Marriages of St. Jean-Baptiste Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1901-1996. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2000.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Marriages of St. Roch Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1899-1982. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2002.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Baptisms of St. Roch Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1899-1982. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2003.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Baptisms of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1882-2010. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2012.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Baptisms of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1892-1995. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2007.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Baptisms of Notre-Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1874-2001, Vols. 1 – 4. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2005.
Burkhart, Janice (Ed.). Marriages of Notre-Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1874-2001, Vols. 1 – 4. Pawtucket: American-French Genealogical Society, 2005.
Charlton, Earle Perry, II & Winius, George. The Charlton Story: Earle Perry Charlton 1863-1930. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Conforti, John J. Fall River’s First Italians: 1872-1914. Fall River: Privately printed, 1975.
Cumbler, John T. Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Bulletin 112, Mortality Statistics 1911, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913, p. 14, at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsushistorical/mortstatbl_1911.pdf
A Directory of Massachusetts Manufacturers Employing Fifty or More Production Workers 1951 – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts – Prepared by Division of Statistics, Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, Boston, at https://archive.org/details/directoryofmassa951mass
Dunwell, Steve. The Run of the Mill: A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry. Boston: David R. Godine, 1978.
Fall River City Document No. 79, 1925. Fall River: Gagnon Printing Co., 1925.
Fenner, Henry M. History of Fall River. New York: F. T. Smiley Publishing Company, 1906.
Gagnon, Louis J. Le Guide Francais de Fall River, Mass. 1909-1910. Fall River: L.J. Gagnon, 1910.
Garment Worker: Har-Lee Edition, ILGWU. Publications: 5780 PUBS, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University, at: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05780pubs.html.
Georgianna, Daniel. The Strike of ’28. New Bedford: Spinner Publications, Inc., 1993.
Hard, William and Rheta Childe Dorr. “The Women’s Invasion: Fall River an Outpost on the Edge of the Future.” Everybody’s Magazine, XIX (November, 1908) pp. 579-591.
Hartford, William F. Where is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Higgins, Alfred & LaVault, Rudolph I. A Comprehensive Dictionary of Textile Terms. Fall River: Dover Press, 1948.
Himmelberg, Robert F. The Origins of the National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association Issue, 1921–1933. New York: Fordham University Press, 1993.
Lambert, Jeannette J. Fall River’s Apparel Industry, 1920-1986. Paper submitted to Bristol Community College, 1988.
Lief, Alfred The Firestone Story. New York: Whittlesey House, 1951.
Maiocco, Carmen J. The Narrows. Fall River Cultural Council, 1992.
Maiocco, Carmen J. Up the Flint. Fall River Cultural Council, 1996.
Maiocco, Carmen J. The Granite Block: Downtown Fall River in the mid-twentieth century. Fall River Cultural Council, 1999.
Markowitz, and David Rosner. Slaves of the Depression: Workers’ Letters about Life on the Job. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Martins, Michael & Binette, Dennis A. Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie Borden and Her Fall River. Fall River: Fall River Historical Society, 2010.
Moniz, Evelyn. My Story: A Memoir. Boston: ILGWU-UNITE, 2011, available here.
Nichols, Henry W. & Broomhead, William H. Standard Cotton Cloths and Their Construction. Fall River: Dover Press, 1927.
Nienburg, Bertha M. Reemployment of New England women in private industry. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936.
Opus 70. Fall River: Bishop Connolly High School, 1970.
Parish, W. H. Artwork of Fall River, Massachusetts. New York: The W.H. Parish Publishing Company, 1897.
Phillips, Arthur Sherman The Phillips History of Fall River, Fascicle I. Fall River: Dover Press, 1944.
Phillips, Arthur Sherman The Phillips History of Fall River, Fascicle II. Fall River: Dover Press, 1945.
Phillips, Arthur Sherman The Phillips History of Fall River, Fascicle III. Fall River: Dover Press, 1946.
Pickin, Mary Brooks. The Fashion Dictionary. New York: Funk & Wagnall’s, 1959.
Pictures of the Worst Fire in Fall River’s History. New Bedford: Reynolds Printing Co., 1928, at: http://www.sailsinc.org/durfee/fire.pdf.
Salmond, John A. The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
Silvia, Philip T. (Ed.). Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1865-1885, as viewed through its newspaper accounts. Fall River: R.E. Smith Printing Co., 1987.
Silvia, Philip T. (Ed.). Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1886-1900, as viewed through its newspaper accounts. Fall River: R.E. Smith Printing Co., 1988.
Silvia, Philip T. (Ed.). Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1900-1911, as viewed through its newspaper accounts. Fall River: R.E. Smith Printing Co., 1992.
Smith, Thomas Russell. The Cotton Textile Industry of Fall River, Massachusetts: A Case Study of Industrial Localization. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1944.
Stiles, Lela. The Man Behind Roosevelt. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1954.
The 1939 Durfee Record. Fall River: The Senior Class of B.M.C. Durfee High School, 1939.
City Directories:
Directory of Dighton, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset & Swansea, Massachusetts, 1955. Newport, RI: Eastern Publishing Company.
Directory of Dighton, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset & Swansea, Massachusetts, 1963-1964. Newport, RI: Eastern Publishing Company.
The Fall River City Directory, 1921 – 1938. Boston: R.L. Polk Co., Publishers.
The Fall River City Directory, 1981 – 1990. Malden: R.L. Polk Co., Publishers.
The Fall River City Directory, 1994 – 1997. Taylor, MI: R.L. Polk Co., Publishers.
The Fall River City Directory, 1939 – 1980. Boston: Sampson & Murdoch Co.
Miscellaneous:
Fall River Church Files (various): The Charlton Library of Fall River History, Fall River Historical Society.
Fall River School Files (various): The Charlton Library of Fall River History, Fall River Historical Society.
Newspapers:
The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Fall River Daily Globe, microfilm collection, Charlton Library of Fall River History, Fall River Historical Society
Florence Morning News, Florence, South Carolina
The New York Times
Photographs & Images:
Private family collections.
Fall River photographs (various): Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.
Fall River postcards (various): Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.
Ephemera:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G.W.U.):
Home Town Union: The Story of the ILGWU in Fall River and Vicinity, Fall River: International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 1948. Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.
Testimonial Banquet to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union by Har-Lee Members, Local 178 – ILGWU, Fall River: Har-Lee Banquet Committee, 1941. Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.
Textile Workers Union of America (C.I.O.):
Agreement By and Between Fall River Textile Manufacturers Association and Textile Workers Union of America (C.I.O.), Fall River: Fall River Textile Manufacturers Association, 1943. Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.
Fall River … A Brighter To-Morrow, Fall River: Fall River Educational Department of Textile Workers Union of America, C.I.O., circa 1945. Collection of the Fall River Historical Society, The Charlton Library of Fall River History.