Manuscripts/9. Environmental
Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/9
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Fenway Alliance records
Collection
Identifier: M216
Scope and Contents
The Fenway Alliance records document the organization’s activities through administrative records, plans, reports, photographs, photographic slides, and subject files. The records document internal committees, meetings, and strategic planning, as well as the organization’s community outreach, external partnerships, and projects in the Fenway area. These records document the Fenway neighborhood, as well as changes to it, as a result of building development, land use, and Muddy River...
Dates:
1962-2015
Boston Elevated Railway Company. Library records
Collection
Identifier: M150
Overview
On July 2, 1894 the Massachusetts Legislature authorized the incorporation of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, a private company formed to build elevated railway lines to the suburbs of Greater Boston. In November 1896, after a proxy battle with the West End Railway Company, which had previously held a monopoly on streetcar routes for the Boston area, all surface and rapid transit were unified under the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The elevated lines were combined with the subway...
Dates:
1884-1967; Majority of material found within 1921-1950
Freedom House, Inc. records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: M016
Overview
Freedom House was founded in 1949 by African American social workers Otto P. and Muriel S. Snowden. It grew out of their initial community organizing with the Council on Community Affairs of Upper Roxbury (1947-1949). The initial goal of Freedom House was to centralize community activism in the fight for neighborhood improvement, good schools, and harmony among racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Otto Snowden was the Director of St. Mark Social Center when he...
Dates:
1941-2025; Majority of material found within 1949-1986
Ken Kruckemeyer papers
Collection
Identifier: M225
Overview
These records document community activism around three sites in Boston, Massachusetts: the Southwest Corridor, Tent City, and Melnea Cass Boulevard. For each site, Kruckemeyer played an important role in advocating for neighborhood interests to be taken into account in the development schemes proposed by private, city, state, and federal entities. The records also document the planning, environmental impact studies, and construction of the Southwest Corridor, for which Kruckemeyer served as...
Dates:
1966-2020
Boston Photo Collaborative records
Collection
Identifier: M160
Overview
The Boston Photo Collaborative was founded in 1991 to address the lack of darkroom facilities in Boston, bring photography into the community, and improve access to the arts. Later, the Boston Photo Collaborative offered inner-city teens training and employment as photographers until it closed in 2007.
Dates:
1992-2007
Central Artery Environmental Oversight Committee (Anne Fanton) records
Collection
Identifier: M199
Overview
Anne Fanton served as executive director of the Central Artery Environmental Oversight Committee which monitored environmental commitments of the Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts from 19922009. The Big Dig project revitalized the Central Artery by replacing the elevated Interstate 93 with the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel and adding the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. In addition, Interstate 90 was extended to Logan International Airport and Route 1A with the...
Dates:
1989-2010
Grants Management Associates records
Collection
Identifier: M178
Overview
Grants Management Associates was founded in 1982 by Newell Flather, Mary Phillips, and Ala Reid. It was renamed GMA Foundations in 2009 and provides consulting, administrative, and organizational support services to grant-making organizations in the Boston area. Among its clients is The Riley Foundation, which was established through a bequest from Mabel Louise Riley.In April 1984, Newell Flather of GMA and two of The Riley Foundation's trustees, Robert W. Holmes, Jr. and Andrew...
Dates:
1974-1999; Majority of material found within 1984-1999
Mary Ellen Welch papers
Collection
Identifier: M198
Overview
Mary Ellen Welch is a community activist and former teacher at Hugh R. O'Donnell Elementary School in East Boston, Massachusetts. Since the 1960s, she has been an advocate for East Boston residents on issues surrounding waterfront development, affordable housing, public schools, and the expansion of Logan International Airport.
Dates:
1948, 1966-2012; Majority of material found within 1971-2012
Nancy Caruso papers
Collection
Identifier: M195
Overview
Nancy Caruso is a community activist and co-founder of the North End Waterfront Central Artery Committee. The Committee was established in 1993 to lessen the impact of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project on the North End and Waterfront neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The Project revitalized the Central Artery by replacing the elevated Interstate 93 with the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel and adding the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. In addition, Interstate 90 was extended to Logan...
Dates:
1948, 1951, 1983-2012
Logan International Airport documents
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z24-028
Dates:
circa 1964-1978
East Boston Greenway Council records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015479741,TRF119719900]
Identifier: Z16-017
Dates:
2012
Alternatives for Community and Environment records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z18-012
Dates:
circa 1990-2010
Alternatives for Community and Environment records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z18-023
Dates:
circa 1990-2010
Alternatives for Community and Environment records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z18-019
Dates:
circa 1990-2010
Central Artery Environmental Oversight Committee (Anne Fanton) records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015480079,TRF119719798]
Identifier: Z16-061
Dates:
1991-2005