Boston Streets Construction Projects Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 21 letters written by residents of four Boston neighborhoods -- Back Bay, Chinatown, Dorchester and the South End -- to city officials between 1853-1870 that document requests for small-scale improvements and street maintenance projects such as the raising of houses and sidewalks, the laying of new sidewalk and street paving. Other letters document offers to sell land or materials to the City for development and complaints over damages incurred as a result of City construction projects. The letters are addressed to the Mayor of Boston, aldermen and the Committee on Paving. Also included are petitions and reports.
Dates
- 1853-1870
- Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2008
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Extent
23.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Source of Acquisition
Boston Rare Maps
Method of Acquisition
Purchase
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Vincent R. Capone, March 2013.
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
Statement on harmful description
Archival description reflects the biases of time periods and cultures in which it was created and may include direct quotations or descriptions that use inappropriate or harmful language. Creator provided descriptions may be maintained in order to preserve the context in which the collection was created and/or used. Legacy description and potentially offensive content may be made available online until a collection can be reprocessed because the access that they provide to primary source materials is uniquely valuable to the research community at large. Our efforts to repair outdated descriptions and to describe our collections more equitably are iterative and ongoing.
- Back Bay (Boston, Mass.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinatown (Boston, Mass.). Subject Source: Local sources
- Dorchester (Boston, Mass.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Letters. Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- South End (Boston, Mass.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Streets -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Boston Streets Construction Projects Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Vincent Capone
- Date
- 02/28/2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
About this library
Part of the Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections Repository
