Streets
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Agreements and bonds register
Series — Volume 1
Identifier: 2200.016
Scope and Contents
Register of agreements and bonds. Lists date, name, street and object.
Dates:
1864-1896
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Agreements and bonds register
Board of Street Commissioners notices
Series
Identifier: 2100.007
Scope and Contents
Notices of apportionment and revision of assessments for street improvements, street watering and sewerage works and notices of street improvements.
Dates:
circa 1894-1917
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
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Cablevision plans
City Council Committee records
Collection
Identifier: 0140.001
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes records of various City Council committees during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The collection spans the years 1828-1912 with the bulk of the material dating from 1860-1895. These records were kept by the Clerk of Committees and include minutes of committee meetings, correspondence, reports, bids, petitions, programs, etc. Committees represented include Police, Fire, Claims, Arrangements, Common and Public Grounds, Underground Wires, Public Instruction,...
Dates:
1828-1912 (bulk, 1860-1895)
City Council orders
Series — Box 1
Identifier: 5060.006
Scope and Contents
City Council orders to the Board of Street Commissioners relative to laying out streets, extending streets and providing estimates.
Dates:
circa 1871-1910
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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City Council orders
Commissioner of Public Works correspondence files
Collection
Identifier: 5000.001
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the incoming and outgoing correspondence files of the Commissioner of the Public Works Department from 1961-2010. It includes the files of Commissioner James W. Haley (1961-1965), Commissioner John F. Flaherty (1965-1968), Commissioner Joseph F. Casazza (1968-2007), and Chief of Public Works and Transportation Dennis Royer (2006-2010) The files are arranged alphabetically by subject and include correspondence along with reports, publications, photographs and other...
Dates:
1961-2010 with gaps
Committee on Streets records
Series
Identifier: 0140.034
Dates:
circa 1826-1840
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Committee on Streets records
Deeds to city property, etc.
Collection
Identifier: 2200.003
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes records of deeds of property to the City of Boston, etc. that were filed with the City Auditor's Office. The types of instruments included are street deeds, quitclaim deeds, agreements, easements, partial releases of mortgages, release of damages, warranty deeds, etc. The records relate primarily to properties taken or purchased for school, police and fire purposes, laying out and widening streets, and other city departments and functions. The collection includes...
Dates:
1803-1968; Majority of material found within Bulk, 1823-1938
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Deeds to city property, etc.
Engineering Department correspondence
Series
Identifier: 5020.002
Scope and Contents
Five outgoing letter-copy volumes of Engineering Department - Survey Division and Street Laying-Out Department - Engineering Division correspondence. Includes volumes from 1904-1926 and 1932-1941.
Dates:
1904-1941 with gaps
Engineering Division plans
Series
Identifier: 5020.001
Scope and Contents
Engineering Department and Public Works Department, Highway Division plans for streets, retaining walls, sea walls, edgestones, etc. Includes two sets of plans: OB# plans and OC# plans.
Dates:
circa 1892-1960
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Engineering Division plans
Level books
Series
Identifier: 5020.010
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 miscellaneous level books of the Highway Division, Paving Service. One book is labeled L-35
Dates:
circa 1940s-1960s
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Level books
List of Accepted Streets in the City of Boston, 1700-1867 inclusive
Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 0300.018
Scope and Contents
The list records all streets which have been formally accepted, 1700-1867 inclusive, based on an examination of the records of the Town and City. Includes name of street with year in which street was recognized by the proper authorities as a public highway.
Dates:
1867 July 1
News clippings
Series
Identifier: 5060.007
Scope and Contents
One volume of news clippings of court decisions relating to streets.
Dates:
1903-1927
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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News clippings
Notices of Intention to build, referred to the City Engineer
Series
Identifier: 0140.032
Dates:
1854-1864 with gaps
Permit indexes
Series — Box 1
Identifier: 5000.014
Scope and Contents
Includes miscellaneous volumes that appear to be indexes to permits for conduits, drains, etc.
Dates:
circa 1920-1960s
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Permit indexes
Pole and conduit locations
Series
Identifier: 0301.015
Scope and Contents
Record of petitions filed for hearings to construct transmission lines upon, along, under or across a public way, 1903-1919 and record of notices of pole and conduit locations granted, 1911-1983, that were required to be filed in the City Clerk's Office by Chapter 509 of the Acts of 1911.
Dates:
1903-1992
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Pole and conduit locations
Public Improvement Commission orders
Series
Identifier: 5060.008
Scope and Contents
Orders of the Public Improvement Commission (formerly Board of Street Commissioners) relating to the laying-out, alteration, opening, discontinuance and naming of streets.
Dates:
1870-1988
Public Improvement Commission proceedings
Series
Identifier: 5060.001
Scope and Contents
Unindexed minutes of the Board of Street Commissioners for 1871, 1874, 1876, 1879, 1881, 1883-1884, 1901, 1905-1909 and 1911; and digital copies of Board of Street Commissioners minutes from 1871-1954 April 30 and Public Improvement Commission minutes from 1954 May 7-1986. The volumes for 1899-1900 are missing.
Dates:
1871-1986 with gaps
Public Works Department contracts
Series
Identifier: 5000.004
Scope and Contents
Specifications and contracts for Public Works Department projects kept by the Public Works Department Bridge and Ferry Division and Contract Office.
Dates:
1911-1992 with gaps
Public Works Department photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 5000.009
Scope and Contents
Photographs collected by the Public Works Department showing Transit construction and street scenes.
Dates:
circa 1880-1970
Public Works Department scrapbooks
Series
Identifier: 5000.005
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks kept in the Public Works Department library. Includes scrapbooks of the City Engineer, scrapbooks on the subway, real estate transactions, and miscellaneous topics.
Dates:
1871-1919
Record of business of Street Commission
Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 5060.003
Scope and Contents
Log of business before the Street Commission relating to laying out of streets. Lists street, parties in interest, number of square feet taken, when taken, estimates, amount paid and notes.
Dates:
1889-1897
Record of grades
Series
Identifier: 5070.002
Scope and Contents
Volume kept by the City Surveyor's Office of copies of orders of the Board of Street Commissioners to establish the grades of streets in Dorchester.
Dates:
1870-1879
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Record of grades
Record of private ways approved
Item
Identifier: 5060.002
Scope and Contents
Votes of Street Commissioners accepting private ways approved by the Mayor.
Dates:
1928-1947
Street Department annual reports
Series
Identifier: 5050.001
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of Street Department annual reports for 1891, 1893, 1900, 1901, 1903-1906, 1908-1909. Annual reports can also be found in the City Documents series.
Dates:
1891-1909 with gaps
Street Laying-Out Department annual reports
Series — Publications PB 035
Identifier: 5060.005
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of annual reports of the Street Laying-Out Department for the years 1893-1898, 1900-1902, 1904-1908, 1910, 1912-1928, 1930-1934, 1936, 1938-1940, 1942-1943 and 1945-1951. Annual reports can also be found in the City Documents series.
Dates:
1892-1951 with gaps
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