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Annual Listing of Residents

Series

Identifier: 4720.001

Scope and Contents Annual Listing of Residents age 20 and over. Includes listings for 1931, ward 1; 1938, wards 1-2, 9-13, 16-17, 19-21; 1952, wards 9, 11-12; 1959, ward 18; 1961, ward 15; 1965, wards 17-18, 20, 22; 1976, wards 4, 16-22; and 1978, wards 15-17, 20.

Dates: 1931-1978 with gaps

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Coughlin et al. v. Election Commissioners et al. case files (Election case)

Collection

Identifier: 0700.025

Dates: 1993

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Election Commission proceedings

Series

Identifier: 4700.013

Scope and Contents Includes the minutes of the meetings of the Election Commission from 1914-1922, 1927-1990 June, 1991 July-1997.

Dates: 1914-1997 with gaps

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Election Department annual reports and publications

Series

Identifier: 4700.010

Scope and Contents Includes copies of annual reports for the years 1924, 1926-1928, 1930-1932, 1934-1935, 1937, 1939-1953, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1969-1981, 1991; "Ordinance Defining New Boundaries of Wards", 1875; "Lists of Streets, Avenues, Courts, Places, etc.", 1880 and 1896; "Act to Provide for Printing and Distributing Ballots at the Public Expense and to Regulate Voting...Being the So-called Australian Ballot Law", 1889; "Report of Special Committee on New Division of Wards into Voting Precincts", 1889; "List...

Dates: 1875-1991

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Election Department scrapbook

Item — Oversize: 1

Identifier: 4700.009

Scope and Contents Scrapbook of forms used by the Election Commissioners. Includes registration forms, nomination papers, ballots, ward map, instructions, certificates of Election, polling location posters, etc.

Dates: 1895-1897, 1908

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Jury lists

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4700.012

Scope and Contents Lists of names of persons liable to serve as jurors in the several courts of Suffolk County.

Dates: 1856-1982

Found in: City of Boston Archives

List of Qualified Male Voters

Item — Volume: 1

Identifier: 4700.003

Scope and Contents note Printed list of qualified male voters for 1889 kept in the Mayor's Office.

Dates: 1889

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Opinions of the Corporation Counsel requested by the Board of Election Commissioners

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 4700.014

Scope and Contents One bound volume and 1 folder of legal opinions requested by the Board of Election Commissioners, 1895-1949, 1967-1974.

Dates: 1895-1974 with gaps

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of change of enrolment

Series

Identifier: 4700.007

Scope and Contents Record of appearance by individual before the Election Commissioners to change party enrolment.

Dates: 1926-1954

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of oaths

Item — Volume: 1

Identifier: 4700.008

Scope and Contents Record of oaths sworn by Assistant Registrars of Voters.

Dates: 1896-1935

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of return of votes from the several wards in the City of Boston

Series

Identifier: 4700.004

Scope and Contents Returns, certified by the City Clerk, of all votes cast in elections. Volumes from 1822-1877 do not include Common Council returns.

Dates: 1822-1894 with gaps

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of returns of votes by precinct

Series

Identifier: 4700.005

Scope and Contents Record of returns of votes cast by ward and precinct.

Dates: 1878-1894

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of votes cast at special elections

Series

Identifier: 4700.006

Scope and Contents Records of votes cast at special elections held in individual wards.

Dates: 1879-1891

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Voter registration records

Collection

Identifier: 4700.001

Scope and Contents note This collection includes voter registration records for men from 1857-1900, women from 1920-1940 and men from 1921-1940. The registers are not a comprehensive listing of all registered voters. The period 1857-1895 includes only naturalized males and for the period 1920-1940 other sets of registers were used to register voters. The collection has been divided into four series: Naturalized male voter indexes; Naturalized male voter registers; Naturalized and Native male voter registers; and Women...

Dates: circa 1857-1940 with gaps

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Ward and precinct maps

Collection

Identifier: 4700.011

Scope and Contents Map books showing ward and precinct boundaries for the years 1878, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1895, 1916, 1921 and 1925 printed by the Election Department.

Dates: 1878-1925

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Women voter registers

Collection

Identifier: 4700.002

Scope and Content This collection contains registers documenting naturalized and native women registered to vote in school board elections from 1884-1920. Naturalized women immigrated to the United States and acquired citizenship. Native women were citizens by birth. Women who became citizens through their native husbands were registered as native voters (Chapter 223, Acts of 1879). Registers are labeled with a ward number, a volume number or both. Only the Naturalized Women Voter Registers have an index, all...

Dates: 1884-1920

Found in: City of Boston Archives

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