Browsing Guides to Manuscript Collections by Title
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(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 14, 2013)
Description: This collection includes the environmental and hazardous waste files of Lauren Stiller Rikleen, former enforcement attorney for both the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and founder of Bowditch & Dewey, LLP’s environmental law group. -
(State Library of Massachusetts. Special Collections Dept., August 8, 2012)
Description: This collection documents the activities of Alexander as a Representative from the 8th Essex District to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 11, 2013)
Description: This collection documents Pines’ career as a Massachusetts Representative and Massachusetts Senator. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., July 24, 2012)
Description: This collection was compiled by Loring Swaim, a journalist with the Lowell Sun, and documents political corruption in Massachusetts, particularly corruption in the assignment of state building contracts and construction projects. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., August 13, 2012)
Description: This collection documents the administrative activities of the Lynn Pearl Button Company, a company which manufactured buttons and jewelry from 1892 to 1895. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., July 24, 2012)
Description: This collection documents Representative Draisen's legislative activities as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the early 1990s. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., January 3, 2013)
Description: This collection documents Marian Walsh’s years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1988 to 1992) and Senate (1993 to 2011). -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., January 3, 2013)
Description: This collection documents Howe’s time as a Massachusetts State Representative from the 31st Middlesex District. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., January 10, 2013)
Description: This collection documents Roosevelt’s tenure as a Massachusetts State Representative from the 8th Suffolk District from 1987 to 1994. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., May 15, 2012)
Description: This collection documents Marshall Stearns and his family while he was a Lieutenant with the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., September 5, 2012)
Description: These records document the work of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, which offered classes for teachers in the arts and humanities and in teaching methods. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., January 3, 2013)
Description: This collection documents Mary E. Grant’s terms as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, during which time she addressed issues such as health and human services, education, seniors’ rights and education, economic development, transportation, and environmental issues. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., August 13, 2012)
Description: This collection documents the efforts of the Massachusetts Civic League to reorganize the Commonwealth's system of public welfare, particularly as it pertained to charitable and reform institutions run by the state. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 12, 2013)
Description: This collection documents the work of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, which was formed in 1917 in anticipation of the United States’ involvement in World War I; the Committee was charged with making sure that all existing military organizations in Massachusetts were fully equipped if called to service. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 12, 2013)
Description: This collection documents the Department of Community Affairs’ hearings regarding the Park Plaza Urban Renewal Project. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 12, 2013)
Description: This collection documents the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s hearings on “Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Products: Reports of Added Constituents and Nicotine Yield Ratings” held in 1997. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., September 5, 2012)
Description: This collection documents the Massachusetts Division of Employment Security from its founding in 1935 (as the Unemployment Compensation Commission) to the late 1980s. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 11, 2013)
Description: This collection documents the efforts of the Massachusetts Halifax Relief Committee to offer assistance to Halifax, Nova Scotia after a destructive explosion in 1917. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 5, 2013)
Description: This collection includes a wide variety of individual documents that pertain to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. -
(State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Dept., February 5, 2013)
Description: This collection consists of newsletters published by several Massachusetts correctional facilities.