Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The departmental public information/affairs unit provides photographic services to departmental units responsible for engineering, construction, maintenance, safety studies, and traffic control, resulting in creation of this series of photographic aerial views of highway construction.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The departmental public information/affairs unit provides photographs for departmental public relations.  Series was created to assist in the planning and public relations relating to construction of Boston central artery including the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The departmental public information/affairs unit produces or acquires films for departmental public relations and provides filming services to departmental units responsible for managing and documenting engineering, construction, maintenance, safety studies, and traffic control.
Notes: Partly scheduled as: Public relations films
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The departmental public information/affairs unit provides photographs for departmental public relations and photographic services to departmental units responsible for managing and documenting engineering, construction, maintenance, safety studies, and traffic control; it may also serve as photographer to the offices of the governor and attorney general.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works, established 1919, was renamed Dept. of Highways (commonly known as the Massachusetts Highway Department) in 1991 (effective 1992), and as the Highway Division under the Dept. of Transportation in 2009.  The Bureau of Transportation Planning and Development was added to the department per St 1964, c 563, s 1, and abolished per St 2004, c 196, s 8, to be consolidated within the Massachusetts Highway Department. It was later succeeded by the Office of Transportation Planning in the Dept. of Transportation.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Since 1963 the department has been under the supervision and control of the Public Works Commission (or board of commissioners–Highways Commission from 1992), which pursuant to MGLA c 16, s 5 meets regularly to approve all contracts (including specifications and all changes), act as a board of contract appeals, and approve or disapprove all claims made under any contract.  Series is created to administer these functions.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by month
Notes:  Scheduled as: Board records; Also known as: Memoranda of recommendations Files for January-September, 1977 lacking
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Since 1963 the department has been under the supervision and control of the Public Works Commission (or board of commissioners–Highways Commission from 1992), which pursuant to MGLA c 16, s 5 meets regularly to approve all contracts (including specifications and all changes), act as a board of contract appeals, and approve or disapprove all claims made under any contract.  Series is created to administer these functions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Scheduled as: Board minutes
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth. At the behest of the governor, and/or per a federal mandate in connection with receipt and expenditure of federal highway funds, various highway planning documents have been commissioned by and/or prepared for the state highway agency. The following plans are currently contained in this series, listed chronologically. With each is cited the container number and whether it is also available in the Massachusetts State Library.
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to maintain boundary lines of the Commonwealth, the Department of Public Works (specifically, until 1927, its Division of Waterways and Public Lands) was required to perambulate state boundary lines every five years to insure that markers and monuments defining them were in place (GL 1921, c1, s4).  Notebooks contain rough notes taken during perambulations in 1920 (1 v.), 1925 (1 v.), and 1930 (2 v.).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by state boundary
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Pursuant to MGLA c 81, s 5 and c 160, s 104, the department gives public notice of and holds hearings of all parties interested before laying out a state highway or a state highway railroad crossing.  Series is created to administer hearings.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality, thereunder chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Scheduled as: Public hearing records
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