Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1978, c 552, the Dept. of Social Services since 1980 has provided a comprehensive social service program for families, children, and unmarried parents; the aging; and other adults and population groups with special needs.  As part of its mandate, the department through its area offices provides counseling; legal, homemaker, educational, and training services; and services to prevent the need for foster care for children.  Single service case files are created to determine, authorize, and provide individual services, such as day care, respite care, and homemaking, needed to support and stabilize the family, usually to allow the single parent to hold employment.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by client
Restrictions: Personal data restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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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 Massachusetts to participate in the 22nd annual Festival of American Folklife, held on the grounds of the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., July 1988. Photographic slides were made to document the festival.

Topics include arts and crafts exhibited, persons attending the festival, and musicians and dancers performing.

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Massachusetts folklife interview files, AF10/870X. Massachusetts Archives.
Massachusetts folklife audiocassettes, AF10/871X. Massachusetts Archives.

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.
Notes: Duplicated deaccessioned to agency, February 2000
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Scope and Content: Social correspondence of Oliver Ames (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1883-1887; governor, 1883-1890) and his wife Anna (Ray) Ames includes letters to them (often answering invitations to social events), postcards, invitations, calling cards, genealogical charts, news clippings, and a tintype family portrait.
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was created by the office’s social policy unit to oversee departments and establish policy.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was created by the office’s social policy unit to oversee departments and establish policy.
Restrictions: Personal/personal medical/evaluative information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission (or Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission) was established in 1964 to plan the observance by Massachusetts of the bicentennial of the historic events preceding the Revolutionary War.  As such it helped to prepare, arrange, and coordinate bicentennial events throughout the state.  Sound recordings and visual materials were created to promote and raise funds for events, prepare communities, and document events of the celebration.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Executive Office of Communities and Development
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Scope and Content: The Psychopathic Dept. of Boston State Hospital was established in 1912.  It became Boston Psychopathic Hospital in 1920; that was renamed Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1956.
Arrangement: Arranged by outpatient registration no
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Newberry Library, Chicago, Aug. 31, 2005. Case file numbering system changed in 1943; files active at that time were renumbered
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Scope and Content: The Speaker presides over House sessions, chairs the House Committee on Rules, and nominates the chair and majority party members of the other House standing committees.  Speaker’s administrative files are created to enable performance of these functions from an administrative aspect.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder by subject
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Scope and Content: The Speaker presides over House sessions, chairs the House Committee on Rules, and nominates the chair and majority party members of the other House standing committees.  Speaker’s general correspondence is generated largely by constituent-related and ceremonial aspects of these functions.
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