-videos 1 and 3: Christina Reid
-video 2: Joe Bruce
-video 5: Emily Klonicki
-videos 4, 6, and second part in 5: Verónica Soria-Martínez
Verónica Soria-Martínez
Verónica Soria-Martínez, from memories and personal communications with neighbors.
“West High School, Senior Class Officers of 1944,” Midway Village Museum - Digital Collections, accessed May 28, 2024, https://midwayvillagemuseumdigitalcollections.omeka.net/items/show/2764.
“Rockford Memorial Hospital, Serving the Community,” Midway Village Museum - Digital Collections, accessed May 28, 2024, https://midwayvillagemuseumdigitalcollections.omeka.net/items/show/4488.
“West High School, Rockford, Ill., 6-96.,” Midway Village Museum - Digital Collections, accessed May 28, 2024, https://midwayvillagemuseumdigitalcollections.omeka.net/items/show/1459.
Rockford Memorial Hospital Director Stanley F. Masson, medical staff President Dr. William Boswell and construction foreman Emil Franseen observe work on the hospital's $335,000 north-wing addition. Published in April 1960. Rockford Register Star, accessed May 28, 2024. https://www.rrstar.com/picture-gallery/news/2015/08/13/rockford-memorial-hospital-through-the/404181007/
Rockford Hospital, which opened in in 1855, was the city's first hospital. Rockford Register Star, accessed May 28, 2024. https://www.rrstar.com/picture-gallery/news/2015/08/13/rockford-memorial-hospital-through-the/404181007/
City of Rockford Community Development Department, “Rockton Avenue Homes,” Midway Village Museum - Digital Collections, accessed May 28, 2024, https://midwayvillagemuseumdigitalcollections.omeka.net/items/show/5263.
"Recollections Author Helen Pagel" Rockford Register Star, January 7, 1969. Accessed May 28, 2024. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A135D854BCB3CDE11%40EANX-NB-1376B5845845E02F%402440229-1375A6872DCBD3AD%4027-1375A6872DCBD3AD%40&hlterms=%22Helen%20Pagel%22%20%22Rockford%20Recollections%22&f=basic
"Clara Faulkner" Faulkner Family - Rootie. Accessed May 28, 2024. https://rootie.org/home/genealogy/faulkner-family/
Beaky's on Rockton (vintage ad from 1966) downloaded from Facebook through Google Images.
City of Rockford Community Development Department, “North Rockton Avenue,” Midway Village Museum - Digital Collections, accessed May 28, 2024, https://midwayvillagemuseumdigitalcollections.omeka.net/items/show/5567.
The Green Shutters ad on the Rockford Register Star, 1955. Retrieved from the Rockford Public Library Local History (Temporarily unavailable) https://history.rockfordpubliclibrary.org/localhistory/