Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Archives occasionally accessions nonpublic records consisting of documents or graphics relating to Massachusetts persons, places, or events.
Notes: Gubernatorial dinner in honor of Generalissimo Armando Diaz, Hotel Somerset, Boston, Dec. 8, 1921: Invitation, admission ticket, program.  Presented by Marie Facchetti, Needham, Mass.; received Mar. 2002
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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: Sylvanus Thayer was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1808, served as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 1817-1833, and was then U.S. Army engineer in charge of construction of fortifications at the entrance to Boston Harbor and of improvements to New England harbors generally; he retired from the Army in 1863 with the brevetted rank of  brigadier-general.  He established the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 1867, and provided a fund for a public library in Braintree, Mass., his residence.
Notes: Pieces encapsulated. Deposited at Archives on permanent loan by Braintree Historical Society, Apr. 24, 1986
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Scope and Content: During the Civil War, Ship Island, Mississippi, served the Union Army as a place of detention for political prisoners, military convicts, and Confederate prisoners of war.  Series documents activities of Ship Island Provost Marshal James Noyes, successively lieutenant and captain in the 74th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment.
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Scope and Content: Hartwell was born in Natick, Mass. and served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, with a final rank of colonel.  He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, then attorney general and later Supreme Court chief justice for the Territory of Hawaii.
Notes: Originals transferred from Archives to State Library, Mar. 1981 (cf. MASZ93-A0)
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Scope and Content: Herbert Parker was the president of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and chairmen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, established in 1929 to plan the Commonwealth’s celebration the following year of the tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony.  Papers contain documents and artifacts of the celebration sponsored by the commission. –Included are mss. of speeches delivered at the Great Meeting at Boston Common on July 15, 1930, among them verses written for the celebration by Robert Grant, introductions made at the Great Meeting, a speech given at the reception and luncheon (including description of persons seated at the head table), and a speech at the Hall of Flags; also programs, invitations, tickets, and badges from the Great Meeting and other Tercentenary events. –Photographs of the Great Meeting in an album are of procession to the pavilion at the Common and of guests, including Calvin Coolidge, ambassadors, and other dignitaries; also shown are military processions, speeches from the pavilion, including that of Gov. Frank Allen, and crowd scenes.  Captions are in Subseries (1), folder 10. –Related series: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission. Great Meeting files, 1930 ((M-Ar)2190X)
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Papers; (2) Photographs of the Great Meeting. Arranged chronologically
Notes: Related series: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission. Great Meeting files, 1930 ((M-Ar)2190X)
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Notes: Presented to the Archives by John H. Edmonds, 1929
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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: Two scrapbooks contain petition cards and letters favoring national prohibition, received by Eugene N. Foss, who ran unsuccessfully in 1915 for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts on a prohibition platform
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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 League, 1940s.  He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals.
Notes: Photographs document various phases of Chadwick’s career. Images include those of Chadwick himself; Maybury Sanatorium in Detroit; colleagues in Massachusetts, including Dr. Alton Pope, commissioner of public health; a 1938 testimonial dinner in Chadwick’s honor; and activities of the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health such as Massachusetts Hospital School graduation and the chest x-ray van sponsored by the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. For Chadwick’s photographs of Westfield State Sanatorium see: Massachusetts. Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. Photographs of sanatoriums ((M-Ar)1353X). Transferred to Archives from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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