Boston
Secondary Works -- Note the Subject terms on each HOLLIS Record
Boston : a topographical history, by Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy. 3rd ed., enl. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000, 380 p.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
Remaking Boston: an environmental history of the city and its surroundings, edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, 333 pages
HOLLIS Records
Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston, by Michael Rawson. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010, 367 p.
HOLLIS Records
Urban archipelago : an environmental history of the Boston Harbor Islands, by Pavla Šimková. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021, 255 pages
HOLLIS Records
Inventing the Charles River, by Karl Haglund. Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, 2003, 493 p.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
--Excellent bibliography (p. [429]-450)
Gaining ground : a history of landmaking in Boston, by Nancy S. Seasholes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003, 533 p.
HOLLIS Record Available online
Research Guides
Boston Public Library Research Guides
Urban Planning and Design
Boston History: Resources for studying Boston History, including primary sources, secondary sources, maps (Lesley)
Boston Online: History
American cities, past and present
Boston: People, Place, and Planning: a history of Boston’s urban development
Images
Boston Public Library's flickr photostream.
Environment/Parks/Recreation
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 contains about 2,800 lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes. Offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System.
Boston Parks Department Reports (1885, 1902-2000)
Health
Bibliographic essay. Pp. 225-243 in Public health and the State: changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936, by B. G. .Rosenkrantz Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
--Includes Appendix 1: Massachusetts State Health Organization, 1869-1969
Whipple, George Chandler. State sanitation: a review of the work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917.
Medical directory of greater Boston: 1915-1916, by Maurice Gerstein. 5th ed. Boston: Boston Medical Publishing Co., 1915-1916, 647 p.
Online version
Countway Medicine | Harvard Depository | 1.Da.1915.2
Countway Medicine | Rare Books | 38.M.8.
Countway Medicine | Rare Books Reference | R712.A2 B6 1916
The Simmons College Charities Collection (1790s-ca. 1950) contains annual reports, pamphlets, etc., of private charities, public welfare agencies, and hospitals in Boston, throughout Massachusetts and the eastern United States, and England.
Historic Preservation
Historic American Buildings Survey/ Historic American Engineering Record
Historic New England (Formerly SPNEA)
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System
Public Works/Services
Boston (City) Departmental Reports
Public Welfare/Charities
The Simmons College Charities Collection (1790s-ca. 1950) contains annual reports, pamphlets, etc., of private charities, public welfare agencies, and hospitals in Boston, throughout Massachusetts and the eastern United States, and England.
Transportation
Archival records of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) are in the Massachusetts State Archives.
An Animated History of the MBTA
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Glass plate collection on the MBTA, 1896-1940 (inclusive). ca. 500 glass plate negatives and 200 prints.
Harvard Art Museums HOLLIS number [000603263]
Statistics
MetroBoston DataCommon offers data and an online mapping tool on the region’s population and communities in the 21st century. The About the Project area gives an overview of the project.