Street-railroads
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Law Department records
Series
Identifier: 0700.007
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes files kept by the City's Law Department on various issues, cases, questions that came before the department during the 20th century. Significant issues, etc. represented in this collection include the Cocoanut Grove Fire, West End Redevelopment, World War, City Real estate holdings, gifts to the city, bridge construction, City Hospital, City Hall construction and many others. The first series includes a numbered reference file that was kept by the Law Department...
Dates:
1908-1997; Majority of material found within Bulk, 1915-1970
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Law Department records
Locations of the Boston street railways granted by the Board of Aldermen, 1879
Item — Volume 11
Dates:
1879
Plans filed in the City Clerk's Office
Collection
Identifier: 0300.012
Scope and Contents
Plans filed in the Office of the City Clerk. The materials in this collection date from circa 1830s-1982 with the bulk of the items dating from 1931-1982. These records consist primarily of twentieth century highway layouts, land taking plans and railroad plans. Also included are city maps, ward maps, and plans relating to bridges, gas and electric, streets and highways, the Parks Department, and the Longfellow School in Roslindale, as well as a small group of miscellaneous items. Some...
Dates:
circa 1830s-1982 (bulk, 1931-1982)
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
Railroad location plans
Collection
Identifier: 0301.019
Scope and Contents
Oversized railroad location plans filed in the Office of the City Clerk. Includes plans for the following Railroad Companies: Boston and Albany Railroad; Boston and Lowell Railroad; Boston and Maine Railroad; Boston and Providence Railroad; Boston Elevated Railway Company; Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad; Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad; Chelsea Beach Railroad; Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad; Eastern Junction Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad; Eastern...
Dates:
1845-1919
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Railroad location plans
Railroads, 1884-1941
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Plans filed in the Office of the City Clerk. The materials in this collection date from circa 1830s-1982 with the bulk of the items dating from 1931-1982. These records consist primarily of twentieth century highway layouts, land taking plans and railroad plans. Also included are city maps, ward maps, and plans relating to bridges, gas and electric, streets and highways, the Parks Department, and the Longfellow School in Roslindale, as well as a small group of miscellaneous items. Some...
Dates:
1884-1941
Street railway locations
Series — Box 1: [Barcode: 00001265]
Identifier: 0301.018
Scope and Contents
Includes printed copies of street railway locations granted, 1869-1942 and one index volume of location plans filed with the City Clerk's Office, 1835-1960.
Dates:
1835-1960
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Street railway locations
Street railway locations granted by the Board of Aldermen to November 1, 1895, 1895
Item — Volume 12
Dates:
1895
The charter and locations of the several street railways in the City of Boston, 1869
Item — Volume 10
Dates:
1869
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