Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
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Scope and Content: In 1999, the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s (MCC) Folk Arts and Heritage Program succeeded the Folklife and Ethnic Arts Program, 1987-1992. Since then it has documented, presented, and supported cultural expression based on shared ethnicity, religious belief, occupational tradition, or sense of place. It identifies and documents craftspeople, performers, and cultural specialists; and seeks to help sustain the practice of tradition where they live and to increase appreciation of their artistry within the community and beyond. The program has established an ongoing regimen of documentary fieldwork, provided direct support to individual artists through Artist Fellowships and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships, and created visibility for traditional artists through print media, radio broadcasts, and bookings at regional folk festivals. The collection generated by the Folk Arts and Heritage Program comprises unique primary source materials (primarily audio recordings, visual documentation, and interviews) documenting the traditional culture, beliefs, occupational skills, and expressive traditions of cultural communities from all across Massachusetts. Series consists of materials generated by folklore field research conducted by the MCC staff folklorist, interns, and contracted professional folklorists and photographers. Field research focuses on the traditional and vernacular music, dance, crafts, and material culture of the people of Massachusetts, from long-settled to new immigrant communities
St 1989, c 653, ss 14-16 abolished the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council, combining their functions in the MCC, effective 1990, within the office of the state treasurer. The gubernatorially-appointed council is mandated to review facilities, activities, and needs of public and private institutions in the Commonwealth and to fund programs concerned with the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences. The council pursues this mission through a combination of grant programs, partnerships, and services for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, communities, and artists. The council’s functions are currently described in MGLA c 10, ss 52-58
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Arrangement:
Items arranged first by individual fieldworker and then chronologically within each smaller grouping.
At the item-level, titles include a unique identifier which includes the initials of the field worker or intern, the year in which the subject file was created, and a number which indicated the subject’s order in the interviews conducted for that particular year. Folders are arranged within this scheme.
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This series has no restrictions to access.
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Massachusetts folklife interview files. AF10/870X
Massachusetts folklife audiocassettes. AF10/871X
Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Scope and Content: To encourage support of volunteer soldiers’ families during the Civil War, Congress, through Acts of 1861, c 9, s 12 (July 22, 1861) and Acts of 1861-62, c 4 (Dec. 24, 1861) established a system whereby a portion of a soldier’s pay could be transmitted to parties designated by him. Implemented on the state level in Massachusetts by St 1862, c 62 (Mar. 11, 1862) and St 1863, c 58 (Mar. 3, 1863), the treasurer was authorized to distribute pay and allowances on behalf of soldiers through the treasurers of the appropriate city or town. –As directed by law, President Lincoln, on recommendation of Gov. John Andrew, appointed Henry Edwards, Frank B. Fay, and David Wilder, Jr., as allotment commissioners for Massachusetts in 1862; they were to visit Massachusetts troops and encourage them to participate in the program. Allotment rolls were made to authorize deductions from soldier’s bimonthly pay. State bounty payments were also similarly distributed through the state treasurer (see: Massachusetts. Treasury Office. Civil War volunteer payment cards ((M-Ar)415X))
Notes: Formerly subseries (2) of: General outgoing correspondence ((M-Ar)18X)
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Scope and Content: To encourage support of volunteer soldiers’ families during the Civil War, Congress, through Acts of 1861, c 9, s 12 (July 22, 1861) and Acts of 1861-62, c 4 (Dec. 24, 1861) established a system whereby a portion of a soldier’s pay could be transmitted to parties designated by him, generally wife or parent, as arranged by federally-appointed allotment commissioners working with the troops of each state. As implemented in Massachusetts by St 1862, c 62 (Mar. 11, 1862) and St 1863, c 58 (Mar. 3, 1863), the state treasurer was authorized to distribute pay and allowances on behalf of soldiers through the treasurers of the appropriate city or town.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by regiment, thereunder by company
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document number 5. Reports for 1843-1855, 1880, 1889, 1895, 1931, 1943, 1948 missing
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