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Government Documents

Online Collections

The Boston Public Library has many government documents in its collections. In order to provide greater access to our patrons, the following have been digitized.

• Boston Records Commissioners' Reports (1674-1822)
  • All Volumes
  • Vol. 10 (Miscellaneous Papers) Table of Contents
• Boston Public Library Documents (1852- )
• Engineers and Public Works Reports (1867-1965)
• State Department Register (1870-1950)
• Bureau of Ethnology Annual Reports (1879-1963)
• Boston Street Lists (1880-1976)
• Boston Police Department Reports (1885-2005)
• Officials and Employees of the City of Boston and County of Suffolk With Their Residences (1905-1937)
• City of Boston Lists of Residents
  • 1909-1910
  • 1922-1930
  • 1931-1940
  • 1941-1950
• Federal Immigration Statistics (1910-1930, 1949-1969, 1978-1982, 1984-1987, 1994-1995, 1997)
• Statistics of Income (1916-2006)
• Boston Police Strike of 1919
• Synthetic Organic Chemicals (1919-1994)
• Uniform Crime Reports of the United States (1930-1995)
• Tools For Statistical Research Of The Census For Boston (1930-2000)
• National Recovery Administration (1933-1935)
  • Codes of Fair Competition
  • Evidence Studies
  • Work Materials
• Census of Business
  • 1933 (aka Census of American Business)
  • 1935
  • 1948
  • 1954
  • 1963
• Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry, a.k.a. Nye Committee (1934-1936)
• Temporary National Economic Committee (1938-1941)
• House Committee on Un-American Activities
  • 1938-1944
  • 1945-1946
  • 1947-1948
  • 1949-1950
  • 1951-1952
  • 1953-1954
  • 1955-1956
  • 1957-1958
  • 1959-1960
  • 1961-1962
  • 1963-1964
  • 1965-1966
  • 1967-1968
• Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens (1940-1942)
• Special Committee on Post War Economic Policy and Planning (1943-1945)
• Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack (1945-1946)
• United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (1948-1976)
• United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, a.k.a. Kefauver Committee (1950-1951)
• U.S. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization (1952)
• Senate Permanent Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, aka Army-McCarthy Hearings (1953-1955)
• Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (1957-1959)
• Statement of Disbursements of the House (1970-2008)
• Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (1973)
• Census of Agriculture
  • 1954
  • 1959
  • 1982
  • 1987
• Iran Contra Scandal (1986-1987)

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