Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines.  These volumes of geographical coordinates and descriptions of the triangulation stations are based on field notebooks of the survey teams.  Computations were verified, adjusted, and prepared by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Notes: Spine title: Massachusetts town boundary triangulation
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Scope and Content: Depicts delegation of members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and their wives at the dedication of a chapel at Gettysburg, Pa., in memory of Massachusetts soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863.
Notes: Presented to Archives by Mary Devlin, daughter of Rep. James H. McInerney, 19th Suffolk District, Massachusetts General Court, Jan. 26, 1996
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Scope and Content: The Government Center Commission was established in 1960 to acquire land and enter into contracts for the erection of a state office building and health, welfare and education center in downtown Boston.  Hearing files document land and property taken by the commission in acquiring sites for the buildings.
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Scope and Content: The Government Center Commission was established in 1960 to acquire land and enter into contracts for the erection of a state office building and a health, welfare, and education center in downtown Boston.  Minutes were created to record the actions and decisions in meetings of the commission.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Government Center Commission was established in 1960 to acquire land and enter into contracts for the erection of a state office building (Leverett Saltonstall Building, completed 1966) and a health, welfare, and education center (Charles F. Hurley Memorial State Office Building (employment security), completed 1971; Eric Lindemann Mental Health Center, completed 1971; and a health, education, and education building, designed but not built) in downtown Boston.  Project files document establishment and implementation of contracts with architects, contractors, and engineers throughout the project. –For plans of project buildings see: Massachusetts. Division of Inspection. Building inspection plans, 1889-1987 ((M-Ar)306X).
Arrangement: Arranged by subject, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s External Relations (formerly Correspondence) Office maintains this series, originally designated: General constituent correspondence, and since 1983 designated more generally and including correspondence previously found in: Constituent issue correspondence ((M-Ar)971X).
Arrangement: In five subseries: (1) Incoming general correspondence (2) Outgoing general correspondence (3) Incoming political correspondence (4) Congressional campaign congratulations (5) Gubernatorial campaign congratulations
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Arranged in subseries at State Library and transferred from there to Archives
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Scope and Content: In Massachusetts the Executive Office of Manpower Affairs was established in 1969; it was informally renamed Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1975, and after a period in which it was also known as the Executive Office of Economic Development  and Manpower Affairs, its name was legislatively changed to Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1987.
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Legislative Office is responsible for coordinating gubernatorial interaction with the legislature.  In fulfilling this function it coordinates research into legislative areas and legislation of interest to or proposed by the governor.  Governor’s legislation files are created to support this activity.
Arrangement: In three subseries. Arranged chronologically by term; thereunder arrangement varies
Notes: Formerly known as: Legislative reference files. Dukakis (1975-1979) files originally known as: MSD 2/951-953, 1001-1006, 1025, 1051-1052. Romney files (including Swift and some earler files) originally accessioned as: R1-14, but many were combined with other segments of the series
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Scope and Content: The Office of Federal State Relations and a predecessor unit under the coordinator of intergovernmental relations have been responsible for relations among the governor, federal government, cities and towns of Massachusetts, and other states.  From 1974 it was  under the administration of the lieutenant governor. Since at least 2007 the responsibility for this function has been assigned to a senior advisor on the governor’s staff.  The Washington office, which serves as the primary intermediary between state officials and the Massachusetts Congressional delegation and as liaison between the state and federal governments,  is currently called the Office of Federal State Relations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
Notes: Files marked with asterisks were weeded
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Education Dept., Wellesley College through the college archivist. Holdings: Volume 5, no. 4 (Sept.-Oct. 1941) only
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