Scope and Content: Series consists chiefly of photographs taken and other materials collected by Robert Irwin, partly in his capacity as secretary of a Massachusetts state commission to identify and care for graves of Massachusetts World War I dead abroad, and to document events, activities, and settings involving the 26th (Yankee) Division, Massachusetts National Guard, during and after World War I. –Files contain lantern slides, photograph album, panoramic photographs menus, mess tickets, pamphlets, and photocopied news clippings.  Topics include: Fort Dowling (Framingham, Mass.), French battlefields and villages, and graves of American war dead overseas.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Presented to Archives by Mrs. John Irwin, May 3, 1983. –Notebook of clippings photocopied and original notebook presented by Archives to Special Collections, Massachusetts State Library
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Scope and Content: The architectural firm Desmond and Lord collaborated with that of John Carl Warnecke and Associates, becoming Warnecke-Cannon, later known as Cannon.
Notes: Presented to Archives, Apr. 9, 1985, by Warnecke-Cannon
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Scope and Content: John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was governor of Massachusetts during the Civil War, 1861-1866.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Publications (2) Manuscripts (3) Pictures; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
Notes: BOX l–Publications of J.A. Andrew: –Address to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. Boston : 1861. (1861 Ex Sess S 1) –Address to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 3, 1862. Boston : 1862. (1862 S 1) –Documents accompanying the Governor’s address, January 3, 1862 [Boston : 1862} (1862 S 1 supplement) –Correspondence between Gov. Andrew and Maj. Gen. Butler. Boston : 1862. –Same. Without cover title. [Boston : 1862] (1862 H 18–per order Jan. 13, 1862) –Address to the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 9, 1863. Boston : 1863. (1863 S 1–2 copies  with variant covers) –Address to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, November 11, 1863. Boston : 1863. (1863 Ex Sess S 1) –Address to the Legislature of Massachusetts together with accompanying documents, January 8, 1864 (1864 S 1) –Proclamation, July 28, 1864. For a day of humiliation and prayer (framed) –An address delivered before the New England Agricultural Society on Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass., September 9, 1864. Boston : 1864. –Address to the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 6, 1865. Boston : 1865 (1865 S 1–2 copies with variant covers) –Special messages to the Legislature of Massachusetts during Session of 1865. Boston : 1865. –An address on the occasion of dedicating the monument to Ladd and Whitney … delivered at Lowell, Massachusetts, June 17, 1865. Boston : 1865. –

BOX 2–(Publications, cont.) : Special message to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 3, 1866. Boston : 1866. (1866 S 1–four copies, two without cover, one of these in bound volume with: –Valedictory address to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 4, 1866. Boston : 1866 (1866 S 2) and:  Address of his excellency Alexander H. Bullock, to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 6, 1866. Boston : 1866.  (1866 S 3) –An address delivered at Brattleborough, Vermont, by invitation of the Agricultural Society of Vermont … September 7, 1866. Boston : 1866.

BOX 3–Other publications: –John Albion Andrew (cover title): A memorial volume containing the exercises at the dedication of the statue of John A. Andrew at Hingham. October 8, 1875 … Boston : [John A. Andrew Monument] Association, 1878. –Bay State monthly. n.s. v. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1885). Includes: John Albion Andrew, the ‘war-governor’ of Massachusetts. –Manuscripts: –John Albion Andrew to William Lathrop Burt. MS. s. Boston, Nov 7, 1862. –William Lathrop Burt to John Albion Andrew. A.MS. s.  Boston, Nov. 8, 1862.

NOTE: A comprehensive collection of Andrew’s gubernatorial correspondence is found in: Massachusetts. Governor. Executive Department letters ((M-Ar)567X) (incoming) and: Massachusetts. Governor. Letters official ((M-Ar)568X) (outgoing) –Pictures: –Framed photograph (50 x 66 cm.) of Gov. J.A. Andrew and Council, ca. 1863. –Steel etching plate and proof:  Photographic portrait (with autograph) of J.A. Andrew. Boston : J.H. Daniels, 186-? –Cyanotype (mounted): Burial place monument, Hingham, ca. 1875. –Engraving print (?): Image of unidentified J.A. Andrew statue.
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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: Photograph of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, delivering an address at the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1976. Presented by Brian McNiff; received Jan. 12, 2010. Entries in photographs card file in Archives reading room (shelved separately).
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Scope and Content: Julia Ward Stickley, a staff member of the National Archives, researched the life of Deborah Sampson Gannett, a Massachusetts resident who, disguised as a man, enlisted as Robert Shurtliff in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army.  Gannett served in several battles and was injured and hospitalized, when her sex was discovered and she was honorably discharged from military service.  Series gathers copies of Stickley’s research sources and correspondence concerning Gannett.
Notes: Presented to Archives by Julia Ward Stickley, July 1984
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Scope and Content: On June 17, 1774, in Salem, the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the General Court’s upper house (Council) passed a resolve directing 500 pounds be paid out of the public treasury to finance the activities of a legislatively appointed committee to join with other similar colonial bodes to meet jointly in September (which became the First Continental Congress). Governor Gage refused to sign the resolve and prorogued the House.  It then proceeded to pass three additional resolves that were reprinted in this broadside transmitted to the various towns and districts of the Province of (the) Massachusetts Bay, one apportioning the 500 pounds to be raised among the towns instead, another asking the provincial inhabitants to come to the rescue of those of Charlestown and Boston from the British-imposed blockade of Boston Harbor, and a third for inhabitants to boycott all goods imported from the East Indies or Great Britain. This copy signed by Samuel Adams, clerk. –See: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. House journal, June 17, 1774 ((M-Ar)1701X)
Restrictions: Access by permission of the state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
Notes: Deposited at the Archives on permanent loan by the Town of Templeton (Mass.), as per agreement of Aug. 19, 1974
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Scope and Content: An orderly book, a collection of daily orders and court martial proceedings, was kept by the adjutant or clerk of each military unit (e.g., company, regiment, brigade) of the Continental Army or Massachusetts militia during the Revolutionary War.  While not normally viewed as state public records, a few of those orderly books relating to Massachusetts units of the period have been deposited at various times with the state secretary
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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(1) Orderly book of Col. Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment, Apr. 27-July 12, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Collection of orders signed by Samuel Osgood, brigade-major to Gen. Artemus Ward, and Lieut. Christian Febiger, regimental adjutant. Located in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War ((M-Ar)57X), v. 59, p. 575-651.

(2) Orderly book of Sgt. Maj. Amos Bailey, Col. Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment, July 17-22, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 59, p. 551 (i.e., 8 p.).

(3) Orderly book of Capt. Abijah Wyman’s Company, Col. William Prescott’s Regiment, July 7-Dec. 30, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Presented by Henry P. Kendall, 37 Chestnut St., Brookline, Mass., date unknown. 1 v.

(4) Orderly book of Col. Loammi Baldwin’s (formerly Gerrish’s) Regiment, Jan. 1-Apr. 12, 1776. Camp at Cambridge, Boston, and New York. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 77 (i.e., entire volume).

(5) Orderly book of Col. Ephraim Wheelock’s Regiment, Aug. 18-Nov. 26, 1776. Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. James Brickett’s Brigade of Massachusetts Militia, camp at Ft. Ticonderoga. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 75, p. 1 – 98.

(6) Orderly book of Capt. Jonathan Houghton’s Company, Col. Jonathan Smith’s Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 9-26, 1776 (not continuous). Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. John Fellows’s Brigade, camp on Long Island. Book kept by Cpl. Nathan Longely. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 55, file I, p. 1-14.

(7) Orderly book of Capt. Samuel Sawyer’s Company, Col. Jonathan Smith’s Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 22-Nov. 27, 1776. Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. John Fellows’s Brigade, camp on Long Island and various points around New York City. Located in: Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 293, p. 124 (i.e., 197 p.).

(8) Orderly book of Enoch Titcomb, adjutant of Brig. Gen. Jonathan Titcomb’s Brigade of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 8-Sept. 4, 1778. Camp at Providence and Rhode Island. Located in: Massachusetts archives collection, v. 327, p. 37 (i.e., 58 p.).

(9) Orderly book of Col. Rufus Putnam’s 5th Massachusetts Regiment, July 8-Oct. 17, 1779. Camp at West Point, Constitution Island, and various places in Westchester County, N.Y. Presented by Rev. Staples, July 19, 1891. 1 v.

(10) Orderly book of Col. John Crane’s 3rd Artillery Regiment, Jan. 27-Mar. 21, 1780. Camp at Morristown, N.J. 1 v.

(11) Orderly book of Lieut. John Davis, adjutant of Col. William Shepard’s 4th Massachusetts Regiment, May 27-July 11, 1782. Camp at Newburgh, N.Y. Cover title: Garrison orders, Highlands, Newburgh. 1 v.
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Scope and Content: Social correspondence of Oliver Ames (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1883-1887; governor, 1883-1890) and his wife Anna (Ray) Ames includes letters to them (often answering invitations to social events), postcards, invitations, calling cards, genealogical charts, news clippings, and a tintype family portrait.
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Scope and Content: Series consists of newspaper morgue wire service dispatches, clippings, and photographs relating to incidents involving two members of the Thayer family of Massachusetts: (1) Webster Thayer, of Worcester, judge who presided over the trial for robbery and murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Norfolk Superior Court, 1921, and whose home was bombed in 1932 as an aftermath of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927 (for State Police investigation files of the bombing see: Massachusetts. Division of State Police. Sacco and Vanzetti case file ((M-Ar)2084X))  (2) Oliver Alden Thayer, of Topsfield, who was charged with the murder of two relatives, 1937, and subsequently committed to an institution for the insane.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Minneapolis Public Library, Special Collections Dept., May 2, 1997
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Scope and Content: Joseph H. Foisy, who served in France during World War One as a sergeant in the 96th Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Force, recorded his activities from his enlistment in August 1917 until his discharge in May 1919.
Notes: Loaned to Archives for filming on behalf of the owner by Albert H. Whitaker, Jr., 1993
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