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Includes administrative files, scrapbooks of news clippings, photographs, and student newsletters. Also includes Mechanic Arts High School yearbooks for 1940-1941 and 1943-1944 and Boston Technical High School yearbooks for 1946-1969, 1972, 1975-1985, and 1987-1991.

Scope and Contents note This collection includes records relating to the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Boston. Mayor James M. Curley served as the honorary chairman of the Boston Tercentenary Committee. Included in the collection is a time capsule that was created by the city government for the bicentennial celebration with instructions to be opened by the Mayor on September 17, 1930. The materials in the time capsule document the 200th anniversary celebration. Also included is a letter...

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Includes yearbooks for 1931, 1935, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1947 and 1948 and a photograph of the school orchestra from the 1926-1927 school year.

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Includes projects files, photographs, files on Women's Memorial, publications, etc. This collection is unprocessed.

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Photograph of Class of 1909.

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Includes reports, teacher assignments, diploma returns and attendance records.

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Includes miscellaneous correspondence, etc. of the Brattle Street Church. Includes a diagram of pews with names of owners.

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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.

Scope and Contents Obsolete and superseded architectural and engineering drawings of the Bridge and Ferry Division for the following facilities: public ways such as bridges, streets, tunnels, navigable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,...

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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.

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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.

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Bridge inspection reports completed as part of a Federal Emergency Relief project in 1935.

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Includes yearbooks for 1938, 1942, 1944, 1948, 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.

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

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

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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.

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Printed volumes of legislation relating to buildings for the years 1886, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1901, 1915, 1921, 1944, 1954, 1962, 1964 and 1970.

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

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

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

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Annual report of the Building Department from 1939.

Scope and Contents The Building permit plans series includes building plans that were submitted to the Inspectional Services Department (formerly the Building Department) for approval by the Building Inspector. Building plans and plot plans are required to be submitted with the long-form permit application which is used for new construction and updates to existing buildings. The Building Inspector reviews the plans prior to the issuance of the building permit. This series includes plans submitted in paper...

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