Greater Boston history

Scope and Contents: The collection contains four audiotapes of interviews and a bound volume of transcribed interviews in Russian and in English. This oral history project was coordinated by David Sloane, Associate Professor of Russian at Tufts University. With students in his third year Russian language class, he identified Soviet Jewish immigrants in the Boston area and had the students conduct oral history interviews. The interviews were transcribed and proofread by the students and interviewees. Though the...

Scope and Contents: This collection primarily contains secondary material donated by Sandra Marlow. Includes copies of several government publications and reports related to atomic testing and specific testing operations; subject files and news and research articles on topics including health effects, waste disposal, and nuclear energy; legal files relating to lawsuits on recognition and compensation for atomic veterans; congressional legislation on recognition and compensation for atomic veterans; one case from...

Scope and Contents: This collection contains financial statements, meeting minutes and membership lists from the Boston Sub-masters Association, an organization for school principals in the greater Boston area.

Scope and Contents: This collection includes poster size proclamations.

Scope and Contents: This collection consists of one inscribed silver plated "Communion set" consisting of a flagon and four goblets stored in a 19th-century wooden box. The box is lined inside with purple velvet and covered on the outside with black canvas. One inscribed silver coin "Communion" set consisting of a covered pitcher and four goblets.

Scope and Contents: This collection contains the papers of Frederick T. Farnsworth. Farnsworth's journals document his life as a teacher, pricipal, Universalist, and father in New England from 1866 to 1926. His notebooks include his college English class notes and a scrapbook of Medford. The collection also includes letters, photographs, and drawings, the last of which includes building plans in Somerville, MA and New York, NY.

Scope and Contents: This collection contains a number of nineteenth-century ledgers. Most ledgers cover the activities of various canals in the northeastern United States. Two ledgers cover events of Charlestown, Massachusetts. One of those consists of handwritten summaries and citations of historical records from 1628-1641. Also noteworthy are ledgers listing the contents of ships traveling the Middlesex Canal. The Middlesex Canal, built between 1793 and 1803, was an important transportation system in...

Overview: This collection contains records created by the Office of Community Relations, including information on Tufts campus buildings, projects, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Scope and Contents: This collection primarily contains materials generated or collected by the World Peace Foundation between 1899 and 2009. It includes books, pamphlets, maps, correspondence, and minutes and agenda. The collection is largely organized by subject, with most of the material dating from 1912 to 1941. The materials provide a window on international and ethnic tensions in the years between the two World Wars, particularly with regard to Japanese-American relations. They also showcase the activities of...