Photographs of harbor and river projects, 1921-1941.

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Photographs of harbor and river projects, 1921-1941.

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As part of their function to protect and develop Massachusetts waterways and tidelands, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function, the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938, and before that the department's Division of Waterways and Public Lands, took photographs that enabled them to make decisions concerning waterfront construction projects and proposed improvements or repairs. Photographs and negatives of photographs are mainly of harbors, rivers, shorelines, and filled-in tidal lands in the Greater Boston area.

0.24 cubic ft. (ca. 1050 photographs in 4 boxes)0.3 cubic ft. (ca. 800 photographs : photonegative in 5 boxes)

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Massachusetts. Division of Waterways

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In 1916 the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and the Directors of the Port of Boston were abolished and responsibility for the general care and supervision of the harbors, flats, tidewaters, including Boston Harbor, and the rivers and great ponds of Massachusetts was transferred to the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands (St 1916, c 288). With the reorganization of government agencies in 1919, however, the commission was abolished and its duties transferred to a Division ...