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Bridge history cards

Series

Identifier: 5010.003

Scope and Contents note Constitutes a historical summary of each structure at the time compiled, with the earliest and latest construction work being 1839-1922. Composed on 5"x8" cards and alphabetically arranged by geographic name, usually a street or water body associated with the structure. Base information was derived from research done in the City Documents and City Council Minutes, and annotated as alterations and repairs were made.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Bridge survey reports

Series

Identifier: 5010.002

Scope and Contents note Bridge inspection reports completed as part of a Federal Emergency Relief project in 1935.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Briefs, etc.

Series

Identifier: 0700.019

Found in: Boston City Archives

Brighton High School records

Series

Identifier: 0420.019

Scope and Contents Includes yearbooks for 1938, 1944, 1950, 1954-1956, 1960, 1970-1974, 1977-1979, 1982, 1984-1985, 1987-1988; school newsletter "Towers" from 1961; two diplomas from the class of 1915; and a framed copy print of the class of 1921.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Budget Department photographs

Series

Identifier: 2300.002

Scope and Contents Photographs of city buildings, capital projects, etc. used in budget reports.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Budget Department reports and publications

Series

Identifier: 2300.001

Scope and Contents Includes copies of annual budget recommendations, operating budgets and other reports.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Builder license applications

Series

Identifier: 5480.001

Scope and Contents The license allows a person to perform certain types of construction work in the City. In most cases, it's illegal to perform certain types of construction work without a license. Includes applications for license and registration from circa 1940-1990 arranged alphabetically by last name.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building Codes

Series

Identifier: 5410.006

Scope and Contents Printed volumes of legislation relating to buildings for the years 1887, 1892, 1895, 1901, 1915, 1921, 1944, 1954, 1962, 1964 and 1970.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building Commissioner correspondence

Series

Identifier: 5410.013

Scope and Contents note Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Building Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner. This collection is unprocessed.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building Commissioner subject files

Series

Identifier: 5410.007

Scope and Contents Subject files of the Building Commissioner. Includes correspondence, reports, plans, etc.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building Commissioner's Bulletin

Series

Identifier: 5410.008

Scope and Contents note Building Commissioner's Bulletins relating to approvals for use of new building products. Includes bulletins #101-#184.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building Department annual reports

Series

Identifier: 5410.014

Scope and Contents Annual report of the Building Department from 1939.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building permit files (Microfilmed jackets)

Series

Identifier: 5410.015

Found in: Boston City Archives

Building permits and plans book

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: 5410.016

Found in: Boston City Archives

Burial permits

Series

Identifier: 7000.003

Scope and Contents Includes the stub and section 3 endorsed by superintendent of cemetery or crematory for burial permits issued from 1988-2012.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Business certificate filings

Collection

Identifier: 0301.001

Scope and Contents note This collection includes records of business certificate filings from 1907-2013. It is divided into two series: Indexes and Certificates. The indexes from 1907-1979 are in bound volumes. The indexes for 1980-1982 and 1983 are in card file drawers. The index covering 1984-1994 is stored in four binders and the indexes for 1995-2010 are in single volumes. The index includes date of filing, name of business, name of owner, address of business and address of owner. The indexes to the business...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cable Television files

Collection

Identifier: 0700.016

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cablevision plans

Series

Identifier: 5000.006

Scope and Contents note This series of plans for the Public Works Department illustrate where underground cable lines where laid in the early 1980s by Cablevision of Boston. Arrangement is by neighborhood and street.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Campaign expense returns

Series

Identifier: 0301.021

Scope and Contents Includes returns of expenses filed by candidates at State and Municipal Elections and returns of expenses filed by treasurers of Political Committees.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Capital Construction project files

Collection

Identifier: 4300.001

Scope and Contents Project files of construction, alteration and renovation projects managed by the Public Facilities Department (Property Management)/Capital Construction of city-owned buildings including schools, libraries, fire stations, police stations, municipal buildings, and Boston City Hospital. Records include contracts, plans, correspondence, memoranda, and photographs.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Case file

File — Box: SB - 017, Folder: 23

Identifier: 8503.003

Scope and Contents Includes one case file for a child under supervision of the Office of Trustees for Children, 1899-1907.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cemetery Department annual reports and publications

Series

Identifier: 4410.001

Scope and Contents Includes copies of annual reports for the years 1900-1905, 1908-1910, 1912, 1914-1915; Reports on Intramural Internments, 1879 (City Documents 47, 96 and 110 of 1879); "Report of Special Committee of Common Council in Regard to South Burying-Ground on Washington Street", 1883; "Copy of Inscriptions upon the Granite Stones in the Kearsarge Avenue Cemetery, 1890; and "Historical Sketch and Matters Appertaining to the Copps Hill Burial-Ground", 1901. Annual reports can also be found in the City...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cemetery Department correspondence

Series

Identifier: 4410.004

Scope and Contents Four volumes of correspondence of the Cemetery Department.

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cemetery Department scrapbook

Series

Identifier: 4410.005

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cemetery Division maps and plans

Collection

Identifier: 4410.002

Scope and Contents note This collection includes maps and plans from the Cemetery Division headquarters at Mt. Hope Cemetery. The maps and plans span the years circa 1899-1999. Many of the maps and plans are undated. The condition of many of the plans is poor because of previous storage and water damage. The collection has been divided into 4 series: Series I - Mt. Hope Cemetery, Series II - Evergreen Cemetery, Series III - Fairview Cemetery, and Series IV - Historic Burying Grounds. The Mt. Hope Cemetery...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Cemetery Division microfilm

Collection

Identifier: 4410.008

Scope and Contents note This series includes microfilm produced by the Cemetery Division between 1980-1981. Records filmed include interment cards, lot index cards and lot plan cards. The interment cards are filed alphabetically within each cemetery and may include name, lot #, location, proprietor, date of interment, age, date of death, place of death, cause of death and undertaker. The 19th century cards for Mt. Hope Cemetery and the Historic Burying Grounds do not provide cause of death. The cards for the Historic...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Centennial Year of Temporary Home for Women and Children

Item — Publications: PB 033

Identifier: 8720.002

Found in: Boston City Archives

Central administrative files

Series

Identifier: 9000.002

Scope and Contents Since 1935 the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) has been responsible for planning, building, and managing housing for low-income families and the elderly in Boston, Massachusetts, with financial assistance from state and federal agencies. Central administrative files are those of the chief administrator and staff, who were responsible for overseeing the daily operations of BHA and carrying out policies and programs approved by the authority's board of commissioners until 1980, when the authority...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Central Board Meeting files

Series

Identifier: 9000.004

Scope and Contents Since 1935 the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) has been responsible for planning, building, and managing housing for low-income families and the elderly in Boston, Massachusetts, with financial assistance from state and federal agencies. Until 1980, when BHA was placed in receivership, overall policy- and decision-making power was vested in its board of commissioners, while responsibility for daily administration was vested in an administrator and staff. The administrator attended regular...

Found in: Boston City Archives

Central Housing Project files

Collection

Identifier: 9000.006

Scope and Contents note This series includes the central files of the staff of the Boston Housing Authority on the individual housing developments under their control. The files are arranged under the authority establishing the developments and within those categories by each development project. The Federally-Aided Developments for Families of Low Income were established under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, as amended and were constructed between 1938 and 1973. The State-Aided Developments for Veterans' Families or...

Found in: Boston City Archives

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