Scope and Content: St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, was instigated by petitions sent by Maine towns to the May 1819 session of the General Court.  This series includes petitions opposing such legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Removed from original papers for St 1819, c 161 (Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Passed acts ((M-Ar)229)) by N. Olsberg, Apr. 1979.; Forms part of : Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, was instigated by petitions sent by Maine towns to the May 1819 session of the General Court. This series includes ca. 170 petitions constituting the large majority favoring such legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Removed from original papers for St 1819, c 161 (Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Passed acts ((M-Ar)229)) by N. Olsberg, Apr. 1979.; Forms part of : Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34. Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by county treasurers and clerks of  the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties upon their establishment per St 1827, c 77 (1828). The government of Middlesex County was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997)
Notes: Box 1: Charts. Box 2: Buildings. Box 3: Persons. Boxes 4-5: Assorted
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Scope and Content: Henry Dexter Chadwick, M.D., was the first superintendent of Westfield State Sanatorium (Mass.), 1908-1929; controller of tuberculosis for Detroit, Mich., 1929-1933; Massachusetts commissioner of public health, 1933-1938; president of the National Tuberculosis Association, 1939-1940, and of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League, 1940s.  He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals.
Notes: Photographs document various phases of Chadwick’s career. Images include those of Chadwick himself; Maybury Sanatorium in Detroit; colleagues in Massachusetts, including Dr. Alton Pope, commissioner of public health; a 1938 testimonial dinner in Chadwick’s honor; and activities of the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health such as Massachusetts Hospital School graduation and the chest x-ray van sponsored by the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. For Chadwick’s photographs of Westfield State Sanatorium see: Massachusetts. Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. Photographs of sanatoriums ((M-Ar)1353X). Transferred to Archives from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Press Office is responsible for publicizing events of the governor’s administration.  In fulfilling this function, it maintains photo documentation of such events, particularly those directly involving the governor, and releases photographs to the media.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term
Notes: Swearing-in ceremony photographs transferred to Archives from Governor’s Personnel Office
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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; it was closed in 2014.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Majority of original prints transferred  Jan. 2011, some from: Research Unit photographs ((M-Ar)N069X)
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Scope and Content: The Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources is responsible for encouraging discovery and reporting of and protecting and preserving such resources in Commonwealth inland and coastal waters.  In fulfilling this responsibility it issues permits for investigation and excavation of underwater sites and exercises oversight authority over related exploring, salvage, and recovery operations; also artifact preservation and disposition (MGLA c 6, s 180; c 91, s 63).  Series provides pictorial documentation of permit sites and operations, artifact conservation, and recovered artifacts.
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Scope and Content: Lakeville State Sanatorium opened in 1910.  It was renamed Lakeville Hospital in 1963, which closed in 1992.
Notes: Copied from originals, 1992
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Scope and Content: Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. The change in name was in deference to the admission of insane male paupers (1886), although it was  followed by the admission of aged and physically or mentally infirm inmates of the State Prison (1890). Insane admissions were then limited for a time to criminals (1894), forming a division called the State Asylum for Insane Criminals (1895), which was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital (1909). Units at Bridgewater were later added for female prisoners (1909-1930), so-called defective delinquents (males from 1922, females 1926-1954)–mentally impaired inmates requiring segregation from standard inmate or institutionalized populations–and for drug and alcohol addicts (from 1922, females to 1930 only), eventually mostly voluntary admissions. All Bridgewater State Farm facilities and divisions (including prison, almshouse, insane, and medical hospital functions) were administered by a common superintendent. The running of the State Farm, including industries and extensive agricultural operations, relied on work performed by all capable inmates.
Notes: Photographs taken by William J. Hamilton of State Farm staff (Almshouse Dept.).  Transferred to Archives by his granddaughter, Margaret L. Manning Warrell, July 1, 1982
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Scope and Content: Pondville Hospital was operated by the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health from 1927 to 1981 as a facility to conduct cancer research and to treat cancer patients.  The superintendent’s office maintained files of photographs of the hospital’s buildings and activities.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1982
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