Housing Development -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Boston Globe Library collection
Collection
Identifier: M214
Scope and Contents
The Boston Globe Library collection, 4,239 cubic feet (4,376 boxes), documents the newspaper’s journalism of Greater Boston and New England from circa 1872 to 2003 through articles, images, and other related materials. The collection consists of four series: 1. Newspaper Clippings, 2. Microfilm, 3. Print Photographs, and 4. Negative Photographs.The materials within this collection were arranged and described using the “More Product, Less Process” (MPLP) method of archival...
Dates:
circa 1872-2003; Majority of material found within 1925-2003
Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (Jeane Neville) records
Collection
Identifier: M224
Overview
The collection documents the first decade of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), a housing advocacy organization founded in 1969 to oppose Harvard University’s proposed expansion into the Mission Hill neighborhood. RTH was successful in pressuring Harvard to create a relocation housing development instead, and in 1976, RTH was able to plan and develop the mixed-income affordable housing community Mission Park. The collection captures the unfolding of events, and the back and forth...
Dates:
1962-2021; Majority of material found within 1969-1980