Scope and Content: The Committee on International Trade and Foreign Investment was established in 1983 as a joint special committee of the Massachusetts General Court to make an investigation and study relative to the advancement of foreign trade between the Commonwealth and various underdeveloped countries, especially in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.  Photographs were created to document the related 1983 visit of the mayor of Beijing, China to the State House.  Individuals shown include Senate President William Bulger, and Senator Royal Bolling Sr., chairman of the committee.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Massachusetts State Library, March 1990
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Scope and Content: A commission was established by Resolves 1930, c 18 to provide a demonstration of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth in connection with celebration of the tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony.  Official photographs document the resulting Tercentenary Exposition of Governmental Activities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as it was held at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston, Sept. 29-Oct. 11, 1930 and in a smaller version at the Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Sept. 15-20.
Arrangement: Presented to the state secretary for the Archives, Dec. 9, 1930
Notes: Cover title: Tercentenary Exposition of Governmental Activities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in two sets; one is in original
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Scope and Content: Series consists chiefly of photographs taken and other materials collected by Robert Irwin, partly in his capacity as secretary of a Massachusetts state commission to identify and care for graves of Massachusetts World War I dead abroad, and to document events, activities, and settings involving the 26th (Yankee) Division, Massachusetts National Guard, during and after World War I. –Files contain lantern slides, photograph album, panoramic photographs menus, mess tickets, pamphlets, and photocopied news clippings.  Topics include: Fort Dowling (Framingham, Mass.), French battlefields and villages, and graves of American war dead overseas.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Presented to Archives by Mrs. John Irwin, May 3, 1983. –Notebook of clippings photocopied and original notebook presented by Archives to Special Collections, Massachusetts State Library
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Scope and Content: The State Prison was opened in 1805 at Charlestown, Boston, as a successor to the prison on Castle Island.  During 1878-1884 the prison was closed and inmates kept at Concord.  With that exception, Charlestown remained the state prison until replaced by Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, 1955-1956.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically within each volume
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Scope and Content: The Engineering Department of the Metropolitan Park Commission was responsible for planning, engineering, and supervising construction of parkways, bridges, locks, rinks, and other recreational and park facilities under the commission’s jurisdiction.  This notebook consists of printed forms filled in by department inspectors overseeing pile driving work done on commission construction projects.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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. In 1866 the board appointed a visiting agent, under its secretary, to track and visit state wards sent out to indenture. The Visiting Agency was made a separate department within the board  in 1869 to investigate applicants wanting to adopt or indenture children, approve placements, conduct visits of children that were adopted, indentured, or otherwise placed out, and provide ongoing follow-up.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by application date
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  The State Primary School, opened at the almshouse in 1866 and continuing after its closing until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Per St 1852, c 275, c 7, almshouse inspectors could place minor inmates out on trial with families, where they were often subsequently indentured.  Later school inmates were similarly placed (originally by school inspectors–St 1866, c 209, s 7; then by school trustees–St 1880, c 208, s 1) and periodically monitored by the visiting agent of the Board of State Charities (St 1869, c 453, s 2; St 1870, c 359, s 2–in which called State Visiting Agency) and from 1879 by the Division of Visiting, Dept. of Indoor Poor, State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (State Board of Lunacy and Charity from 1886).  Host families were also required to report regularly on the health, conduct, education, and religious training of inmates in their charge.  Series consists of such reports to the almshouse (to 1866) or to the school (from 1866)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Files for 1862-1864 lacking
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Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Inmates were placed out on trial (often subsequently indentured) with families (originally by school inspectors–St 1866, c 209, s 7; then by school trustees–St 1880, c 208, s 1) and periodically monitored by the visiting agent of the Board of State Charities (St 1869, c 453, s 2; St 1870, c 359, s 2–in which called State Visiting Agency) and from 1879 by the Division of Visiting, Dept. of Indoor Poor, State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (State Board of Lunacy and Charity from 1886); they were returned to school if arrangements were not mutually satisfactory (St 1870, c 359, s 3).  Inmates too young or otherwise handicapped to earn their own support were placed on board with families, the state paying attendant costs (St 1880, c 208, s 1).  Series was created to administer and record placement.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of placement or indenture
Notes: Volume 1 formerly separate series known as: Placement and indenture register.  Spine title: Indenture & agreement book. Volume 2 formerly separate series known as: Trial book (spine title)
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Scope and Content: The State Reform School for Girls was established in 1855 and opened in 1856 at Lancaster as the State Industrial School for Girls.  From 1911 until its closing in 1972 it was known as the Industrial School for Girls.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Placed out (2) Returned (3) Committed; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
Notes: Deposited in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, May 4, 1976.  Transferred to Archives, Novolumes 11, 1982
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Environmental Management, which has general care and oversight of the natural resources of the Commonwealth and adjacent waters, maintains series relating to these functions created by earlier agencies. Series was created privately to map planned recreational facilities in the Walden Pond area operated by the Fitchburg Railroad Company.
Notes: Scheduled under the department’s Division of Planning and Development. Title proper: Picnic grounds at Concord
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