Scope and Content: Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Waltham, Mass. in 1930 and was closed in 1992. Appropriations for a segregated children’s unit at the hospital were made as early as 1946 (St 1946, c 309, item 1701-13; see also St 1946, c 491). In 1954 a William C. Gaebler Children’s Unit was formally established, known some time after 1969 as the Gaebler Children’s Center. It was responsible for providing residential care and treatment to mentally ill children of Massachusetts under the age of sixteen.  Inpatient case files were created to provide a record of the commitment, diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients admitted to the unit.  Files consist of medical records based on admission date, 1958, 1974-1992, and commitment papers, 1945-1988. Pre-1974 medical records may be found in the hospital’s Inpatient case files ((M-Ar)2592X). Pre-1954 commitment papers found here are presumably taken from that series.
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Waltham, Mass. in 1930 and was closed in 1992. Appropriations for a segregated children’s unit at the hospital were made as early as 1946 (St 1946, c 309, item 1701-13; see also St 1946, c 491). In 1954 a William C. Gaebler Children’s Unit was formally established, known some time after 1969 as the Gaebler Children’s Center. It was responsible for providing residential care and treatment to mentally ill children of Massachusetts under the age of sixteen. Policy and procedure manuals were created to promulgate and document policies and procedures (a) hospital (i.e., center) wide  (b) in Dept. of Nursing Services.
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Scope and Content: Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Waltham, Mass. in 1930 and was closed in 1992. Appropriations for a segregated children’s unit at the hospital were made as early as 1946 (St 1946, c 309, item 1701-13; see also St 1946, c 491). In 1954 a William C. Gaebler Children’s Unit was formally established, known some time after 1969 as the Gaebler Children’s Center. It was responsible for providing residential care and treatment to mentally ill children of Massachusetts under the age of sixteen. Psychological test data case files were created to diagnose the nature of mental illness of children who were hospital patients.
Arrangement: In two sequences: (1) 1946 (bx 1); (2) 1947-1992 (bx 2-24) Arranged within each sequence alphabetically by patient name
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
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Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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Scope and Content: The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and its predecessor to 1879 the Board of Harbor Commissioners had general care and supervision of harbors and tidewaters in the Commonwealth; from 1888 the later body was also responsible for great ponds, and, 1901-1914, for completion of a town boundary survey initially undertaken by the Topographical Survey Commission.  Correspondence was created to support these functions.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Incoming correspondence, 1872-1874, 1886-1889, 1898-1902; arranged chronologically in reverse order (2) Incoming correspondence, 1897, 1898-1899, 1902-1903, 1906; arranged alphabetically by correspondent (3) Miscellaneous incoming letters, 1869-1905; arranged chronologically (4) Outgoing correspondence, 1894-1902, 1907-1915; arranged chronologically
Notes: Photographs accompanying letter dated Aug. 1906 (subseries (2): G-K) removed; see: Photographs of logging on the Connecticut River ((M-Ar)353X)
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Geographic Board was established by the governor at the request of the United States Geographic Board to prepare an accurate listing of Massachusetts place names.  This series was created during the compilation of research for the list and in response to requests for information.  The files of Allen Chamberlain, chairman of the board, and Ellen Burrill, secretary of the board, contain incoming correspondence and carbon copies of outgoing correspondence, newsclippings, and minutes of meetings.
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Scope and Content: During the term of Endicott Peabody (1963-1965), the governor’s personal secretary managed the governor’s office in conjunction with the governor’s chief secretary and the governor’s special assistant, as documented in this series.
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Scope and Content: In Massachusetts the Executive Office of Manpower Affairs was established in 1969; it was informally renamed Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1975, and after a period in which it was also known as the Executive Office of Economic Development  and Manpower Affairs, its name was legislatively changed to Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1987.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by administration, thereunder alphabetically by subject
Notes: Series was recovered from offsite storage; presumably portions were lost or discarded, including those for 1983-1985
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Scope and Content: Following the recommendation of the Continental Congress (Resolve of Oct 26, 1775) for prosecuting the Revolutionary War, the Massachusetts General Court appointed a committee of both houses to engage and fix out, on the colony’s own account and risk, ten vessels stocked with provisions, produce, and horses (but no other livestock) for export to the West Indies in exchange for the import of ammunition, sulphur, saltpeter, arms, and German steel (House Journal, Dec. 15-16, 1775).  Series was created to administer these exports on behalf of the colony.
Arrangement: Arranged by account
Notes: Presented to Archives by Francis Brinley, Jan. 13, 1861
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Tewksbury opened in 1854.  It was renamed successively the State Hospital (1900), the State Infirmary (1909), Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (1939), and Tewksbury Hospital (1959)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by varying year spans, thereunder by account, and then chronologically by month
Notes: Records for 1889-1890 lacking
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