Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1895, c 284 and RL 1902 c 10, s 17, the State House Commission approved state agency requisitions for and the sergeant-at-arms procured new furniture and fixtures for the State House and other state office buildings; they were succeeded in these functions in 1919 by the superintendent of buildings. Registers were created to record contracts awarded for procurement of such furnishings
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume 1, 1915-1918; Volume 2, 1918-1920
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Notes: “Report on investigation of affairs at the State Farm in Bridgewater, June 4, 1931”

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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1895, c 284 and RL 1902 c 10, s 17, the State House Commission approved state agency requisitions for and the sergeant-at-arms procured new furniture and fixtures for the State House and other state office buildings; they were succeeded in these functions in 1919 by the superintendent of buildings. Series was created by these agencies to process such requisitions and subsequent bids and orders for procurement of such furnishings
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities was established to maintain a continuing study of the cultural resources of the Commonwealth. During 1987 the council, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Folklife Programs, conducted fieldwork to identify and locate traditional folk artists from Massachusetts to participate in the 22nd annual Festival of American Folklife, held on the grounds of the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., July 1988. Photographic slides were made to document the festival.

Topics include arts and crafts exhibited, persons attending the festival, and musicians and dancers performing.

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Massachusetts folklife interview files, AF10/870X. Massachusetts Archives.
Massachusetts folklife audiocassettes, AF10/871X. Massachusetts Archives.

Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Notes: Duplicated deaccessioned to agency, February 2000
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: Arranged by agency.

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Scope and Content:  The Office of Geographic Information in Massachusetts (known also as the Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS) and renamed in 2014 as noted below) has been the designation for the unit of geographic information assigned to the collection, storage, and dissemination of geographic data. MassGIS manages, maintains, and provides access through web mapping services and data download to the state’s geographic information database. –MassGIS was developed by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Appropriations bill St 1985, c 140 (item 2050-0200) funded a feasibility study for a geographic information system for environmental data under the Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council division of EOEA. St 1987, c 199 (item 2050-0200) funded the implementation of the geographic information system. The Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council ceased to meet as a body after St 1995, c 38, s 2 (item 2000-0100), and its functions were transferred to the office of the Secretary of Environmental Affairs. St 1998, c 194, s 63 established within the EOEA an Office of Geographic and Environmental Information, the name later shortened as above. –In 2010, the Secretary of Administration and Finance convened a task force to determine the future of MassGIS. Due to its increased focus on non-environmental agencies, the recommendation was made to move MassGIS to the Administration and Finance secretariat’s Information Technology Division (ITD). St 2010, c 56, s 10D transferred the core functions of MassGIS from EOEA to the ITD. In 2014, the ITD was replaced by the Office of Information Technology (MassIT) as the state’s lead executive agency for technology and innovation, at which time the geographic unit was officially renamed Bureau of Geographic Information (St 2014, c 165, s 2/MGLA c 7D, s 5).\

Arrangement: 4 subseries

Notes: Accessioned as State orthophoto files

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