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Mayor James M. Curley collection
Collection
Identifier: 0237.001
Scope and Contents
The Mayor James M. Curley collection includes materials created by and created about James Michael Curley during his long political career. The collection includes materials pertaining to periods during his time as Mayor of Boston as well as during his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts and as member of the United States House of Representatives. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, speeches, audiovisual materials, writings, and various forms of memorabilia. Included with the...
Dates:
1912-1977, undated
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor John B. Hynes collection
Collection
Identifier: 0243.001
Scope and Contents
The Mayor John B. Hynes collection contains personal papers of the former mayor collected after his time in office. The papers include personal correspondence, employment and miltary service records, and various forms of personal memorabilia including certificates, awards, diplomas, poetry and writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, and multiple scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings and articles from Hynes's early tenure as mayor in 1950 and 1951.
Dates:
1891-1893, 1915-1966, undated
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor John F. Collins photographs
Collection
Identifier: 0244.002
Scope and Contents
Photographs documenting the administration of Mayor John F. Collins, 1960-1967.
Dates:
circa 1960-1967
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor John F. Collins records
Collection
Identifier: 0244.001
Scope and Contents
Records of the administration of Mayor John F. Collins, 1960-1967. Includes correspondence, subject files, reports, briefings, speeches, photographs and memorabilia.
Dates:
circa 1960-1967
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor Kevin H. White records
Collection
Identifier: 0245.001
Scope and Contents note
When Mayor Kevin H. White left office in 1983, he gifted the records of his administration to the Boston Public Library, as at that time there was no city archives. The records were closed sometime after that by the Attorney General and research was restricted. In the early 1990s, Dick Dray, a former advisor under Mayor White, doing business as Boston Research Associates, attempted to organize and describe the records with the intention of writing a book on Mayor White. At some point, this...
Dates:
1929-1999 (bulk, 1968-1983)
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols collection
Collection
Identifier: 0239.001
Scope and Contents note
A majority of the documents in this collection, particularly correspondences, are from the years after Nichols was city mayor. Many of the documents are speeches written by Nichols for radio addresses to the public as well as general addresses, lectures, and commencements. There are two photographs in this collection and two books. One book contains circulars, newspaper clippings, and campaign ephemera, all from 1925. The second book, titled "The Standard Diary 1933" contains...
Dates:
circa 1926-1929
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor Raymond L. Flynn records
Collection
Identifier: 0246.001
Scope and Contents note
The Mayor Raymond L. Flynn collection includes the records of the mayoral administration of Raymond L. Flynn, the 46th Mayor of Boston, who served from 1984-1993. The collection is divided into the following series: I. Subject files; II. Briefings; III: Correspondence; IV. Issue files; V. Press Office records; VI. Reports and publications; VII. Executive orders; VIII. Photographs; IX. A/V material; and X. Artifacts. The records of the Flynn administration document the many issues facing...
Dates:
1984-1993
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Mayor Thomas M. Menino records
Series
Identifier: 0247.001
Dates:
1993-2013
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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