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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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
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Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910.  They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names; by 1968, from which time it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Rutland State Sanatorium (2) North Reading State Sanatorium (3) Lakeville State Sanatorium (4) Westfield State Sanatorium
Notes: Westfield photographs may include those belonging to Henry Dexter Chadwick, first superintendent. Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: The Committee on International Trade and Foreign Investment was established in 1983 as a joint special committee of the Massachusetts General Court to make an investigation and study relative to the advancement of foreign trade between the Commonwealth and various underdeveloped countries, especially in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.  Photographs were created to document the related 1983 visit of the mayor of Beijing, China to the State House.  Individuals shown include Senate President William Bulger, and Senator Royal Bolling Sr., chairman of the committee.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Massachusetts State Library, March 1990
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Scope and Content: A commission was established by Resolves 1930, c 18 to provide a demonstration of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth in connection with celebration of the tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony.  Official photographs document the resulting Tercentenary Exposition of Governmental Activities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as it was held at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston, Sept. 29-Oct. 11, 1930 and in a smaller version at the Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Sept. 15-20.
Arrangement: Presented to the state secretary for the Archives, Dec. 9, 1930
Notes: Cover title: Tercentenary Exposition of Governmental Activities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in two sets; one is in original
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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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