Voting registers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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Annual Listing of Residents
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...
Dates:
circa 1857-1940 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
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Voter registration records
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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Women voter registers
