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Cocoanut Grove (Boston, Mass.) -- Fire, 1942

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Boston City Hospital collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7020.001
Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of the Boston City Hospital from 1864-1996. Parts of this collection were originally in the custody of the Boston City Hospital Library. The collection includes Board of Trustees minutes and records; published reports of the hospital; administrative files of the hospital and of the library; financial records of the hospital; historical files and news clippings compiled by the library over time; holdings of the library including medical texts dating...
Dates: circa 1790-1996 (bulk, 1864-1996)
Found in: City of Boston Archives / Boston City Hospital collection

Law Department records

 Series
Identifier: 0700.007
Scope and Contents note This collection includes files kept by the City's Law Department on various issues, cases, questions that came before the department during the 20th century. Significant issues, etc. represented in this collection include the Cocoanut Grove Fire, West End Redevelopment, World War, City Real estate holdings, gifts to the city, bridge construction, City Hospital, City Hall construction and many others. The first series includes a numbered reference file that was kept by the Law Department...
Dates: 1908-1997; Majority of material found within Bulk, 1915-1970
Found in: City of Boston Archives / Law Department records

Master copy of list of dead and injured in Cocoanut Grove Fire

 Item — Box SB - 033
Identifier: 0285.001
Scope and Contents

List in envelope with the following description on outside "List of Dead and Injured in Cocoanut Grove Fire, November 28, 1942, Official List of Master File, Boston Committee on Public Safety. VERY PRECIOUS MATERIAL, NEVER TO BE DESTROYED, 1 copy at 9 Park Street, 1 copy at 261 Franklin Street} for safety in event of fire or air raid."

Dates: 1942 November 28
Found in: City of Boston Archives / Master copy of list of dead and injured in Cocoanut Grove Fire

Photographs of Cocoanut Grove Fire, Boston, Mass., November 28, 1942

 Item
Identifier: 0500.027
Dates: 1942 December 1-11
Found in: City of Boston Archives / Photographs of Cocoanut Grove Fire, Boston, Mass., November 28, 1942

Stenographic Record Volume I: Commonwealth v. Barnett Welansky et al.

 Digital Record
Identifier: 0700007-008-001-001
Dates: 1943-03-15
Found in: City of Boston Archives

William Arthur Reilly collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0299.001
Dates: 1925-1969, undated
Found in: City of Boston Archives / William Arthur Reilly collection

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