River survey field notebooks, 1905-1939.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

River survey field notebooks, 1905-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564408

As part of their function to supervise the waterways of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Department of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, to 1916, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, and the Department of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) conducted surveys of rivers, ponds, and harbors. Survey notebooks contain computations needed to map rivers.

1.25 cu. ft. (47 v. in 1 record center carton)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6766377

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Works Progress Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)

Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Massachusetts. Commission on Waterways and Public Lands

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb7k26 (corporateBody)

Massachusetts. Division of Waterways

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n7hvc (corporateBody)

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 ...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Works.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6714rkk (corporateBody)

Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners of Massachusetts

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c5sc8 (corporateBody)

The Topographical Survey Commission was created in Massachusetts per Resolves 1884, c 72, and during its existence had a mandate to carry out two projects: preparation of a contour topographical map of the state in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, and with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1884-1887) to produce a town boundary survey (the determination by triangulation of boundary lines of cities and towns) starting in 1885. Additional legislation was initiated to auth...