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
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: When the Massachusetts General Hospital was incorporated in 1811 to care for sick and mentally ill persons, a board of visitors of state officials was mandated to inspect the hospital periodically and to select four of its twelve trustees.  Board correspondence consists of letters addressed or forwarded to several governors (i.e. chairs of the board), relating to election of hospital corporation officers and trustees.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Agency history record (CStRLIN)MASVAH0321-A describes the history and functions of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed inquired into the subject of the unemployed in Massachusetts and measures for their relief by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.  To administer its investigations and other affairs the board’s secretary conducted a variety of correspondence; outgoing mail is recorded in this series in letterpress form.
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The Subdivision of Research and Statistics was established in the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) in 1937.  By 1939 it was renamed Bureau of Research and Statistics and by 1940 was an independent unit within the department.  It was renamed successively: Division of Research and Planning (1970), Division of Statistics and Analysis (1971), Office of Research and Planning (mid-1970s), Office of Research and Evaluation (1979), and Office of Research, Evaluation, and Planning (1983)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: Series includes letters to the governor referred to the chief of staff as well as incoming and outgoing letters to/from the office itself.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The Governor’s Office of Educational Affairs, established by Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1983, was intended to serve during his second administration as an official link to all public and private educational constituencies, and to support gubernatorial commitment to improving the quality of public education and delivery of all educational services.  Series was created to advise the governor on educational issues and to represent the governor to the community.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The governor has been chief executive officer of Massachusetts from the chartering of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 to 1774 and from 1780 to the present day.  Series consists of correspondence (including but not limited to that addressed to or written by the governor or deputy or lieutenant governor, often involving the government of neighboring jurisdictions) and other public nonjudicial documents created under the provincial charter (1692-1774) and the Commonwealth (from 1780)–and a few related earlier items–not specifically identified with the General Court, the Council, or the governor acting as the Council’s head (i.e., receiving petitions or requests for reimbursement of expenses, or issuing orders, proclamations, or commissions) or otherwise dealing with treaties, truces, or submissions (also to be identified with the Council), or otherwise dealing with legislation, reimbursement of expenses, or vital records (to be identified with the General Court)
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: Correspondence was created to develop and support policies of those holding the office of Insurance Commissioner, who were responsible for the regulation of insurance business in Massachusettts.  It is composed of two volumes in which outgoing and incoming correspondence and printed materials have been affixed in scrapbook fashion.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject, thereunder chronologically
Notes: These volumes were discovered after the agency moved to new quarters; no other correspondence has survived
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in the Lincoln County area of Maine.  These files contain a potpourri of disparate communications made and received by the managers of the Land Lottery.  Included are letters, receipts, lists of ticket holders, copies of resolves, and updated draft reports of the managers to the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC

Scope and Content: The special commission investigating the selection of an official state song was appointed in 1958 and reconstituted in 1961 and 1964.  Headed by Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops Orchestra, the commission ultimately recommended “All hail to Massachusetts,” by Arthur J. Marsh, adopted as the state song by St 1966, c 644.  Series was created to administer the commission’s activities, including corresponding with Marsh and others.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives, from the papers of Arthur Fielder, 1983
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC