Scope and Content: The Directors of the Port of Boston, who took over responsibility for Boston Harbor from the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners when they were created in 1911, issued permits for activities not requiring a full license, such as dredging, dumping materials, taking gravel and sand from beaches, and building conduits underground.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of permission granted
Notes: Spine title: Misc’l permits
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to care for and supervise the harbors and lands of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, to 1916, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Dept. of Public Works, 1919-1927, and the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) issued these permits in response to petitions filed for activities not requiring a full license, such as dredging, dumping materials, taking gravel or sand from beaches, and building fish piers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date permit granted; after 1919 permits are also numbered
Notes: Permits for 1888-1919 called: Miscellaneous permits
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Scope and Content: As part of its licensing function, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and its predecessor in this function, the Board of Harbor Commissioners (1866-1879), received petitions from persons requesting permission to build structures in lands adjacent to the water or to solid fill or dredge in tidewaters and harbors.  Petitions approved by commissioners resulted in permits and licenses and are recorded in annual reports and minutes.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date petition was received. arranged chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Petitions missing for 1884, 1887-1893, 1904; there are very few petitions for 1872-1878 and 1882-1887.Petitions for 1879-1887 glued into two letterbooks (box 10)
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Scope and Content: The Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources is responsible for encouraging discovery and reporting of and protecting and preserving such resources in Commonwealth inland and coastal waters.  In fulfilling this responsibility it issues permits for investigation and excavation of underwater sites and exercises oversight authority over related exploring, salvage, and recovery operations; also artifact preservation and disposition (MGLA c 6, s 180; c 91, s 63).  Series provides pictorial documentation of permit sites and operations, artifact conservation, and recovered artifacts.
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and tidelands, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function, the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938, and before that the department’s Division of Waterways and Public Lands, took photographs that enabled them to make decisions concerning waterfront construction projects and proposed improvements or repairs.  Photographs and negatives of photographs are mainly of harbors, rivers, shorelines, and filled-in tidal lands in the Greater Boston area.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and public lands, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners was responsible for maintaining navigable waterways.  These photographs of a log jam on the Connecticut River accompanied correspondence from the Holyoke Yacht Club notifying the board of the blocked condition of the river and requesting assistance.
Notes: Photographs removed from: General correspondence ((M-Ar)652X), subseries (2) Aug. 1906 (G-K)
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and public lands, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners was responsible for licensing and oversight of construction in these areas.  These photographs accompanied a report sent to the board comparing the use of concrete and granite as building materials for construction of a dry dock.
Notes: Photographs removed from: Massachusetts. Division of Waterways. Computations and calculations for contract specifications, Dry dock folder ((M-Ar)656X)
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission in conjunction with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (but replaced in this function in 1901 by the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners) sent out field teams to set monuments marking or re-marking angles and corners of town boundary lines in a uniform system.  These photographs were made by the survey teams to supplement written descriptions and computations of the geographic positions of the markers.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by locality
Notes: Found by the Public Information Office of the Dept. of Public Works in a bridge abutment in Peabody.  The bulk of the collection had been destroyed
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Scope and Content: The police force of the Metropolitan District Commission, (MDC) known until 1961 as the Police Department or Metropolitan District Police, and from then on as the MDC’s Police Division, enforces the commission’s regulations for use of property and facilities functions on MDC property as do municipal police of the Commonwealth.  Photographs were created to document the various duties and activities of the division.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: When the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) was established in 1919 as a successor to the Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) and the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, the Engineering Dept. of the MDC’s Parks Division continued the functions of the Engineering Dept. of the MPC.  Known also as Park Engineering, Parks Engineering, and the Parks Engineering Dept., it was designated at least as early as 1953 as the Division of Parks Engineering, until absorbed into the Engineering Division in 1975.
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