Scope and Content: As part of their function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and tidelands, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function, the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938, and before that the department’s Division of Waterways and Public Lands, took photographs that enabled them to make decisions concerning waterfront construction projects and proposed improvements or repairs.  Photographs and negatives of photographs are mainly of harbors, rivers, shorelines, and filled-in tidal lands in the Greater Boston area.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
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Scope and Content: The commission, charged with planning an appropriate memorial to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., created a portion of this series of photographs as an exhibit at the dedication of a bronze bust of Lodge, October 1988, at the Massachusetts State House.  Other photographs document the dedication.  Those from the exhibit are copies of photographs of Lodge from 1919 to 1972 as a young man and throughout his political life.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of image
Notes: Collated: 1985-1988
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged by inmate case no
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and public lands, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners was responsible for maintaining navigable waterways.  These photographs of a log jam on the Connecticut River accompanied correspondence from the Holyoke Yacht Club notifying the board of the blocked condition of the river and requesting assistance.
Notes: Photographs removed from: General correspondence ((M-Ar)652X), subseries (2) Aug. 1906 (G-K)
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and public lands, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners was responsible for licensing and oversight of construction in these areas.  These photographs accompanied a report sent to the board comparing the use of concrete and granite as building materials for construction of a dry dock.
Notes: Photographs removed from: Massachusetts. Division of Waterways. Computations and calculations for contract specifications, Dry dock folder ((M-Ar)656X)
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission in conjunction with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (but replaced in this function in 1901 by the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners) sent out field teams to set monuments marking or re-marking angles and corners of town boundary lines in a uniform system.  These photographs were made by the survey teams to supplement written descriptions and computations of the geographic positions of the markers.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by locality
Notes: Found by the Public Information Office of the Dept. of Public Works in a bridge abutment in Peabody.  The bulk of the collection had been destroyed
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Scope and Content: The police force of the Metropolitan District Commission, (MDC) known until 1961 as the Police Department or Metropolitan District Police, and from then on as the MDC’s Police Division, enforces the commission’s regulations for use of property and facilities functions on MDC property as do municipal police of the Commonwealth.  Photographs were created to document the various duties and activities of the division.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: When the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) was established in 1919 as a successor to the Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) and the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, the Engineering Dept. of the MDC’s Parks Division continued the functions of the Engineering Dept. of the MPC.  Known also as Park Engineering, Parks Engineering, and the Parks Engineering Dept., it was designated at least as early as 1953 as the Division of Parks Engineering, until absorbed into the Engineering Division in 1975.
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
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Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910.  They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names; by 1968, from which time it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Rutland State Sanatorium (2) North Reading State Sanatorium (3) Lakeville State Sanatorium (4) Westfield State Sanatorium
Notes: Westfield photographs may include those belonging to Henry Dexter Chadwick, first superintendent. Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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