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Government Information

Online Collections

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

Federal - Census and Statistical

Census of Agriculture
- 1954
- 1959
- 1982
- 1987
Census of Business
- 1933 (aka Census of American Business)
- 1935
- 1948
- 1954
- 1963
Uniform Crime Reports of the United States (1930-1995)
Extra Census Bulletins of 1890
Federal Immigration Statistics (1910-1930, 1949-1969, 1978-1982, 1984-1987, 1994-1995, 1997)
Statistics of Income (1916-2006)

Federal - Congressional

Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry, a.k.a. Nye Committee (1934-1936)
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)
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)
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a.k.a. Church Committee (1975)
Iran Contra Scandal (1986-1987)
House Committee on Un-American Activities (indices: 1938-1954, 1955-1960, 1942-1947)
- 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

Federal - Executive Branch

Official Army Registers (1813-1969)
Bureau of Ethnology Annual Reports (1879-1963)
U.S. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization (1952)
Department of State Bulletin (1939-1989)
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations (1974-1993)
National Recovery Administration (1933-1935)
North American Fauna (No. 1 - No. 73)
Navy Directory (1923-1939)
Smithsonian Year (1965-1997)
State Department Register (1870-1950)
Synthetic Organic Chemicals (1919-1994)
Temporary National Economic Committee (1938-1941)

Regional - Boston and Massachusetts

Boston Street Lists (1880-1976)
Building Codes Relating to Boston (1873-2008)
Tools For Statistical Research Of The Census For Boston (1930-2000)
Boston Election Department Annual Reports
Engineers and Public Works Department Reports (1867-1965)
Boston Fire Department Reports (1870-1990)
City of Boston Lists of Residents
- 1909-1910
- 1922-1930
- 1931-1940
- 1941-1950
- 1951-1960
Boston's Municipal Register (1841-1991)
Boston Neighborhood City/Town Records (before annexation by City of Boston)
- Charlestown City Documents (1801-1874)
- Dorchester Town Documents (1636-1870)
- Hyde Park Town Documents (1868-1906)
- Roxbury City Documents (1847-1867)
Officials and Employees of the City of Boston and County of Suffolk With Their Residences (1905-1937)
Boston Parks Department Reports (1885, 1902-2000)
Boston Police Department Reports (1885-2005)
- Boston Police Strike of 1919
Boston Public Library Documents (1852- )
Boston Records Commissioners' Reports (1674-1822)
Boston School Desegregation bibliography (also referred to as the Boston Busing crisis)
Boston Street Department (1891-1910)
Boston Tax Lists (1826-1865)
Boston Water Works Documents