Scope and Content: Views taken by Thomas Hartley, photographer for Skyways, a branch of the Massachusetts National Guard, based in Boston.
Restrictions: Notebook appears to have been assembled by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Notes: Notebook appears to have been assembled by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Series presented to the Massachusetts Archives by Judith Cohen (Norwood, Mass.), Mar. and Oct. 2012
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Scope and Content: The Boston architectural firm of Freeman, Brigham, and Hussey has preserved drawings created by other architects for Bristol County (Mass.) public buildings including the County Court House, Taunton (undated); Registry of Deeds, Fall River (1930); National Guard Armory, Dwelly St., Fall River (1957); and Superior Court House and Registry of Deeds, Fall River (1968)
Notes: Presented to Archives, March 18, 1982 and June 10, 1997
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Notes: Biographical materials pertaining to Eugene N. Foss were created for use in Foss’s political campaigns. The series contains handwritten and typewritten biographical sketches, newspaper and magazine articles, and genealogical materials on the Foss family
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Archives occasionally accessions nonpublic records consisting of documents or graphics relating to Massachusetts persons, places, or events.
Notes: Four ms./printed documents relating to the Boston fur trade, 1878-1893. Presented by Peter Halferty, Calcium, N.Y.; received through Gov. Deval Patrick, July 17, 2013
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Notes: Business and personal records of Eugene N. Foss apparently comprised part of Foss’s estate. They include checkbooks and receipts from the estate, 1938-1942, the Suburban Realty Corporation (Boston), 1938-1939, and the Massachusetts Bond & Mortgage Co. (Boston), 1939-1940; also military draft data and correspondence regarding wartime workers at the Maverick Mills and Northern Rayon Weaving Mills, 1942-1943
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Scope and Content: Charles Nelson Gardner was born Mar. 29, 1845 in South Scituate, Mass. (later Norwell). Enlisted (Private) in the 18th Regt. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Company G), Aug. 4, 1862, discharged Feb. 7, 1864, and re-enlisted Feb. 8, 1864. Transferred to 32nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Oct. 21, 1864 (Company E); awarded Medal of Honor, Apr. 27, 1865 for capturing Confederate flag at the Battle of Five Forks, Va., Apr. 1, 1865;  commissioned 2nd Lieut., Apr. 1, 1865; discharged  June 7, 1865.  Transferred to Company D, June 8, 1865; mustered out June 29, 1865. Served in Massachusetts General Court, House of Representatives, 1901-1902. He died in Norwell, Feb. 22, 1919.
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Transferred to Archives, Sept. 2011. Gift of Deborah Rogers, Canton, Mass.

Contents (all items created by or relating to Gardner unless otherwise noted):

• Civil War diary, 1864-1865.
• Status documents: discharge, Feb. 7, 1864; application for discharge, June 6, 1865; discharge, June 7, 1865; muster-in roll, June 8, 1865; discharge, June 29, 1865.
• Medal of Honor and related documents: report of flag capture, Apr. 22, 1865; transmittal, May 3, 1865; delivery, May 20, 1865; certificate, Oct. 8, 1916.
• Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at Andersonville, Georgia, Thursday, December 19, 1901 (booklet and commemorative medal).
• Clasp pin, 1917 (otherwise unidentified).
• Miscellaneous documents/clippings (12) relating to Gardner, Medal of Honor, and other Civil War veterans.
• Photographs: carte-de-visite (Gardner portrait) and enlargement; Norwell G.A.R. group including Gardner; D. Willard Robinson Post 112 (G.A.R., Norwell) taken after Gardner’s death.

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Scope and Content: Henry Dexter Chadwick, M.D., was the first superintendent of Westfield State Sanatorium (Mass.), 1908-1929; controller of tuberculosis for Detroit, Mich., 1929-1933; Massachusetts commissioner of public health, 1933-1938; president of the National Tuberculosis Association, 1939-1940, and of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis and Health League, 1940s.  He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Certain Public Health Matters (Resolves 1947, c 73–also known as the Special Commission on Public Health) and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals (1953) –Series documents Chadwick’s professional career.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Series documents Chadwick’s professional career. Files contain personal and professional letters sent and received while superintendent at Westfield; consultant reports on tuberculosis programs in Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Richmond, Va.; reports produced while a member of two Massachusetts commissions, the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals; official letter of appointment to the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health; lecture notes; publications file; papers relating to presidency of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League, including a printed history of the history of tuberculosis; programs of a 1938 testimonial dinner in Chadwick’s honor; letters of congratulation on his ninetieth birthday. Transferred to Archives from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
Notes: Cover title: Political letters. Outgoing correspondence of William E. Brigham, secretary of the New England Reciprocity League, concerns the league’s activities in behalf of tariff reciprocity, a primary political concern of Eugene N. Foss. This letterpress copybook bears the printed label of B.F. Sturtevant Company, of which Foss was treasurer and general manager
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Scope and Content: George H. Everett served in the Civil War as a private in Company C of the 44th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.  His diary contains observations of daily life of a Union private from camp in Readville, Mass. (Aug. 29, 1862) to duty in North Carolina (Feb. 3, 1863).
Restrictions: Originals (diary) restricted as fragile; access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
Notes: Microfilm included with Massachusetts. Land Office. Correspondence ((M-AR)72X) Reel 2. Presented to Archives by Charles H. Ryland, Apr. 24 and June 25, 1985
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Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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