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Boston Zoning Code and Enabling Act
Series — Box: 1
Identifier: 0301.045
Dates:
1997 as amended to 2003
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Bowditch School photograph
Item — Box: SB - 003
Identifier: 0420.017
Brandeis Vocational High School administrative records
Series
Identifier: 0420.018
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, teacher assignments, diploma returns and attendance records.
Dates:
1939-1953
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Brattle Street Church records
Series — Box: SB - 017, Folder: 3-5
Identifier: 0301.050
Scope and Contents
Includes miscellaneous correspondence, etc. of the Brattle Street Church. Includes a diagram of pews with names of owners.
Dates:
1832-1858
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Bridge and Ferry Division photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5010.004
Scope and Contents
Photographs and negatives of bridges and ferries. Subjects include views of City bridge, ferry, and pier facilities before, during, and after repairs, views of fire boats and ferry boats moored at these facilities, and views of motor vehicles involved in accidents damaging these facilities.
Dates:
circa 1926-1947, 1971-1977
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Bridge and Ferry Division plans
Collection
Identifier: 5010.001
Scope and Contents
Obsolete and superseded architectural and engineering drawings of the Bridge and Ferry Division for the following facilities: public ways such as bridges, streets, tunnels, navigable water bodies, ferries and ferry facilities, and miscellaneous city facilities such as cemeteries, garages, piers, sewage and rubbish facilities, parks and other open spaces, monuments, development plans, bulkheads, hospitals, penal facilities, MBTA facilities and vehicles, schools, bathhouses, Harbor islands, and...
Dates:
circa 1849-1959
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Bridge and Ferry Division records
Collection
Identifier: 5010.006
Scope and Contents
Subject files and miscellaneous records documenting the work of the Bridge and Ferry Division of the Public Works Department. Also includes a sampling of log books for three bridges.
Dates:
circa 1910-1975
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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.
Dates:
circa 1900-1922
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1935
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1915-1988
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Brighton Main Streets website
Collection
Identifier: 7660.002
Dates:
2016-2019
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Budget Department photographs
Series
Identifier: 2300.002
Scope and Contents
Photographs of city buildings, capital projects, etc. used in budget reports.
Dates:
Circa 1980s-2000
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Budget Department reports and publications
Series
Identifier: 2300.001
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of annual budget recommendations, operating budgets and other reports.
Dates:
1915-1994 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
circa 1940-1990
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Building Codes
Series
Identifier: 5410.006
Scope and Contents
Printed volumes of legislation relating to buildings for the years 1886, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1901, 1915, 1921, 1944, 1954, 1962, 1964 and 1970.
Dates:
1886-1970
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1969-1975
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Building Commissioner subject files
Series
Identifier: 5410.007
Scope and Contents
Subject files of the Building Commissioner. Includes correspondence, reports, plans, etc.
Dates:
circa 1958-1985
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1962-1972
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Building Department annual reports
Series
Identifier: 5410.014
Scope and Contents
Annual report of the Building Department from 1939.
Dates:
1939-1956 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Building Inspector reports
Series
Identifier: 5410.016
Dates:
1879-1903 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Building permit files (Microfilmed jackets)
Series
Identifier: 5410.015
Dates:
circa 1900-1980
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1988-2012
Found in:
City of Boston 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...
Dates:
1907-2015
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Cable Television files
Collection
Identifier: 0700.016
Dates:
circa 1972-1982
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1983-1984
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1905-1912
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1967-2012
Found in:
City of Boston 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.
Dates:
1899-1907
Found in:
City of Boston 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...
Dates:
1879-1912
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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