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 numerically
Restrictions: There may be copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction of these materials, Smithsonian Institution
Notes: Duplicated deaccessioned to agency, March 2000
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities was established to maintain a continuing study of the cultural resources of the Commonwealth. During 1987, the council, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Folklife Programs, conducted fieldwork to identify and locate traditional folk artists from massachsuetts to participate in the 22nd annual Festival of American Folklife, held on the grounds of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., July 1988. In documenting interviews in the areas of traditional narrative, occupational folklife, foodways, and traditional music, folklorists created interview tapes.

Audiocassettes are recordings of interviews with folk artists, and contain information about the ethnic heritage of the interview subject, the history and method of the folkway being documented, recipes, songs, legends, and related information. Massachusetts folklife interview files were created in conjunction with this series.

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Arrangement:
Arranged numerically.

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There are copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction of these audiocassettes; Smithsonian Institution. Office of Folklife Programs.

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Massachusetts folklife interview files were created in conjunction with this series. AF10/870X

Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities was established to maintain a continuing study of the cultural resources of the Commonwealth. During 1987 the council, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Folklife Programs, conducted fieldwork to identify and locate traditional folk artists from Massachusetts to participate in the 22nd annual Festival of American Folklife, held on the grounds of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., July 1988. In documenting interviews in the areas of traditional narrative, occupational folklife, foodways, and traditional music, folklorists created interview tapes.

Files contain preliminary and final field reports, notes, interview report forms, photologs, tape logs (see related series below), and contact sheets of photographs/slides of the interviewees. Information includes name of interviewer; name, age, and ethnic background of interview subject; and narrative describing the folklore tradition related to the folkway treated in the interview and photographs. Massachusetts folklife audiocassettes were created in conjunction with this series.

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Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by interviewer’s name.

Conditions Governing Access:
Photographs:There are copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction of these materials; Smithsonian Institution. Office of Folklife Programs.

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Massachusetts folklife audiocassette files were created in conjunction with this series. 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 alphabetically by interviewer’s name
Restrictions: There may be copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction of these materials, Smithsonian Institution
Notes: Duplicate file set deaccessioned to agency, February 2000
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Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities and its successors from 1863 onward oversaw the Massachusetts state immigration and pauper relief functions, as well as the state’s charitable and correctional institutions.  The Massachusetts Infant Asylum, founded by F.B. Sanborn among others, was a private institution incorporated in 1867 to house abandoned and destitute infants. Infants were admitted aged nine months and under, and were discharged at two years, unless health conditions warranted a longer stay. Per St 1870, c 136, the Board of State Charities was to be immediately notified when a child with no settlement in any municipality was taken in, and the board was authorized to remove the child, or to reimburse the asylum for its care at an established rate. To ease overcapacity at the asylum and increase life expectancy, St 1880, c 142 directed the Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity in such cases to place state pauper infants out to board with families. The agent for the sick state poor within the Board of State Charities tracked and compiled information on infants, foundlings, and deserted children received at or being boarded out by the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, in order to properly identify those infants eligible for state reimbursement for their care. Attempts were made to identify and/or locate parents to determine if they could reclaim their children or be made responsible for their support, or to identify municipalities where the parents had settlement that should have responsibility for the support of the infants.
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Scope and Content: Resolves 1949, c 28 established a special commission to be called: Market Authority, consisting of legislative and gubernatorial appointees, including the commissioner of agriculture ex officio, to investigate handling of essential fresh foods and to improve market facilities for such handling.  St 1950, c 748 followed the commission’s report to the legislature with establishment of the Massachusetts Marketing Authority with similar membership but including Boston officials as well, as a body politic and corporate, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth, to acquire land for a modern market project for named communities of metropolitan Boston, through the issuance of revenue bonds.  St 1951, c 714 amended the preceding act to apply only to the city of Boston, which would acquire the marketing project when revenue bonds were paid.  This being accomplished, the authority was abolished per St 1953, c 248.  Series includes letters, maps, plans, photographs, newspaper clippings, lists of popular food-related items in Boston and their prices, minutes, and reports.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Military State Agency in Washington, D.C.,  established in 1862 and headed by Gardiner Tufts, served as a charitable and relief organization for Massachusetts soldiers during the Civil War, along with similar agencies in four other Atlantic seaboard transport centers. Its duties included the visiting of hospitals to ascertain the condition of soldiers and providing them with necessary supplies; acting for claimants of back-pay, bounties, and pensions; arranging for the interment or return to Massachusetts of the bodies of deceased soldiers; and providing information to soldiers’ families about their condition and whereabouts. After the war, the agency continued its work with pension and bounty claims, in Washington until 1870, then in Boston until 1879, when its functions were transferred from the state surgeon general to the state adjutant general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Typescript note inside front cover, presumably by Frederick W. Cross, military archivist, indicates that the volumes were submitted by Howe in his capacity as military agent
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Military State Agency in Washington, D.C.,  established in 1862 and headed by Gardiner Tufts, served as a charitable and relief organization for Massachusetts soldiers during the Civil War, along with similar agencies in four other Atlantic seaboard transport centers. Its duties included the visiting of hospitals to ascertain the condition of soldiers and providing them with necessary supplies; acting for claimants of back-pay, bounties, and pensions; arranging for the interment or return to Massachusetts of the bodies of deceased soldiers; and providing information to soldiers’ families about their condition and whereabouts. After the war, the agency continued its work with pension and bounty claims, in Washington until 1870, then in Boston until 1879, when its functions were transferred from the state surgeon general to the state adjutant general.
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Scope and Content: To encourage recruitment of soldiers in Massachusetts during the Civil War, bounties were given to soldiers who volunteered for service. Initially bounties were paid directly by the cities and towns, but after the presidential call for an additional 300,000 volunteers on Oct. 17, 1863, bounties were paid directly by the Commonwealth, per St 1863 c 254 (Nov. 18, 1863). Bounties given each volunteer were
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically (separate sequence per volume) by first letter of surname, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Labels in volumes indicate purchase in Washington, D.C., where presumed issuing agency was headquartered
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Military State Agency in Washington, D.C., established in 1862 and headed by Gardiner Tufts, served as a charitable and relief organization for Massachusetts soldiers during the Civil War, along with similar agencies in four other Atlantic seaboard transport centers. Its duties included the visiting of hospitals to ascertain the condition of soldiers and providing them with necessary supplies; acting for claimants of back-pay, bounties, and pensions; arranging for the interment or return to Massachusetts of the bodies of deceased soldiers; and providing information to soldiers’ families about their condition and whereabouts. After the war, the agency continued its work with pension and bounty claims, in Washington until 1870, then in Boston until 1879, when its functions were transferred from the state surgeon general to the state adjutant general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically within each grouping as described below
Notes: Transferred from Special Collections, Massachusetts State Library, Aug. 9, 2007
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