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St. Joseph's Parish, the Polish Roman Catholic church of Camden's Whitman Park, began in 1891; its Baroque-style church at 10th and Mechanic Streets, designed by George I. Lovatt and consecrated in May 1914, is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Sites.
The Camden County Polish American Republican Club was a Polish-American political organization active in Camden in the 1920s and beyond, meeting at Tenth and Liberty Streets, with Vincent Raczykowski serving as president.
A personal memoir by Deborah Large Fox about the childhood hours she spent in her grandfather Watson Burdalski's produce store at 1545 Mount Ephraim Avenue, in Camden's Polish neighborhood — a recollection of the sights, sounds, and smells of the shop and his kitchen.
Richard Brodowicz's personal memoir of growing up in South Camden in the 1960s and 1970s, covering Polish family life, St. Joseph's Church and School, neighborhood games, and childhood memories on Tioga and Mechanic Streets.
Camden Courier-Post - January 1964 Vincent Raczykowski, 78, founder and owner of the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton Street, died Wednesday in West Jersey Hospital.
Camden Courier-Post - January 16, 1928 Vincent Raczykowski was elected for the third consecutive time as president of the Camden County Polish-American Republican Club at the annual meeting held in the clubhouse at Tenth and Liberty streets.