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Fixed asset recording records [Massachusetts Governor]

Part of: Governor

Fixed asset recording records, 1991-2004.

2 record center cartons
Call no.: GO1/2484

Scope and Content: Series documents the official acquisition, betterment, or disposal of fixed assets.  Annual inventories identify office equipment and furniture in the governor’s department, with information on missing items, surplus items, and office floor plans. –Series currently includes files from terms of William Weld (1991-1997), Argeo Paul Cellucci (1997-2001), Jane Swift (2001-2003), and Mitt Romney (2003-2007)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Folk Arts and Heritage collection

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19 records center cartons; 12 document boxes

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.

Conditions Governing Access:
This series has no restrictions to access.

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Massachusetts folklife interview files. AF10/870X
Massachusetts folklife audiocassettes. AF10/871X

Forms and procedures manuals [Walter E. Fernald State School]

Part of: Walter E. Fernald State School

Forms and procedures manuals, 1908-1935.

6 volumes in 1 record center carton
Call no.: HS14.02/803X

Scope and Content: The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850.  It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Funding application files [Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation]

Part of: Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation

Funding application files, 1971-1979.

18 record center cartons and 4 document boxes
Call no.: HS6.19/1170X

Scope and Content: State oversight of treatment for drug abuse in Massachusetts was successively the responsibility of the Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Board, established 1963 in the Dept. of Public Health, and of the Division of Drug Rehabilitation, established 1969 in the department of the attorney general, transferred to the Dept. of Mental Health effective 1971, and then to the Dept. of Public Health, effective 1982.  In 1986 the division was merged with that department’s Division of Alcoholism to form (as of 1989) the Division of Substance Abuse Services.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically (some overlap), thereunder successively by region, area, and facility
Restrictions: Personal data restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Restrictions: Personal data restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository

FYI newsletters [Massachusetts Office of Federal State Relations]

Part of: Office of Federal State Relations

FYI newsletters, 1984-1990.

1 document box
Call no.: GO12/1388

Scope and Content: The Office of Federal State Relations and a predecessor unit under the coordinator of intergovernmental relations have been responsible for relations among the governor, federal government, cities and towns of Massachusetts, and other states.  From 1974 it was  under the administration of the lieutenant governor. Since at least 2007 the responsibility for this function has been assigned to a senior advisor on the governor’s staff.  The Washington office, which serves as the primary intermediary between state officials and the Massachusetts Congressional delegation and as liaison between the state and federal governments,  is currently called the Office of Federal State Relations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Notes: Issues for 1986-1988 lacking
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