1900-1936
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The Good Government Association records are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Abstract
This collection consists of records of the Good Government Association, formed in Boston by a group of businessmen interested in promoting progressive reform in the government of the city.
Historical Sketch
The Good Government Association (GGA) was formed in Boston by a group of businessmen interested in promoting progressive reform in the government of the city. It grew in part from an impulse to counter the largely Democratic (party) control of the local political machine and the tendency of local government to spend more than was raised from taxes, making up the deficits through long-term bond issues.
The stated purpose of the Good Government Association was "to awaken public interest in city affairs and to arouse in the citizens of Boston a sense of their political duties and awaken their civic pride." The Executive Committee of the association acted on behalf of the larger membership. A finance committee raised money to meet the expenses of the organization through an annual appeal. The association achieved its objectives by conducting personal interviews with candidates for local office, publishing pamphlets that outlined all candidates with recommendations by the GGA, and publishing a newsletter (from 1905) entitled City Affairs, their official bulletin.
Some active members of the GGA included George Nutter, James Jackson Storrow, Robert Treat Paine, and Edward A. Filene. The organization disbanded in early 1934 from a combination of lack of interest, aging membership, the waning of the Progressive movement in American politics, and disagreement among members about the backing of specific candidates for office.
Sources
The above information was excerpted from the typescript history of the Good Government Association by Joanne Devlin, May 1999, located in Series II, General Records, Box 21.
Collection Description
This collection consists of records of the Good Government Association (GGA), created to promote civic duty and to elect "honest and capable men" to political positions in Boston. Records include reports made about prospective politicians such as James Curley, Calvin Coolidge, Martin Lomasney, Patrick Collins, and John F. Fitzgerald; investigations into the management of budgets and contracts relating to municipal infrastructure projects in Boston; inspection of the city budget and the activities of the Finance Commission; and promotion of the 1909 revision to Boston’s City Charter. The collection also contains GGA correspondence; membership records; financial statements, auditor’s reports, and cashbooks; publications and brochures; 45 scrapbooks; newspaper clippings; and individual candidate investigation files with clippings, correspondence, interviews, and campaign ephemera. Also included are records of the Boston Charter Association; carriage bills, 1902-1914; and non-GGA printed materials.
Other Formats
The Good Government Association candidate files (Series I) are available on microfilm, P-745, Reels 1-31.
Acquisition Information
Gift of George Read Nutter, 1934.
Restrictions on Access
The Good Government Association records are stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Candidate files, 1903-1933
Arranged alphabetically by candidate name.
This series contains material collected by the Good Government Association on candidates for local (Boston) and state government offices. The material was originally composed of newspaper clippings, glued onto boards, as well as some non-newspaper material. Newspaper clippings were discarded after microfilming, and only non-newspaper material has been retained.
For complete files (including newspaper clippings), use microfilm, P-745.
Adams, Wilbur F.
Adlow, Elijah
Agnew, James E.
Ahern, Timothy J.
Aicardi, Joseph L.
Altshuler, Louis I.
Anderson, George P.
Anderson, George W.
Andrew, A. Pratt, Col.
Andrews, George H.
Andrews, Richard F.
Angell, Marks
Ansel, Julius
Ardolino, Alexander
Arnold, Seth F.
Aronson, Samuel
Attridge, John J.
Atwood, Frank S.
Atwood, Harrison H.
Avallone, Edmund J.
Babb, George W. P.
Bacigalupo, Edward P.
Bacon, Gaspar G.
Bagley, Edward C. R.
Baglioni, Charles
Balch, Francis N.
Baldwin, James H.
Baldwin, John E.
Ball, Thomas J.
Ballantyne, John
Ballantyne, Walter
Bangs, Francis R.
Barker, William H.
Barrett, William J.
Barry, Edward P.
Bates, Sanford
Battis, George H.
Bearak, Joseph
Bell, Tilton S.
Bellew, Henry E.
Bencks, Augustus
Bennett, March G.
Berry, Forrest L.
Berwin, William
Bilodeau, Thomas H.
Blake, William J.
Bliss, Alvin E.
Blong, John T.
Bogan, Frederick L., Dr.
Bohrer, Benjamin M.
Bolton, Fred E.
Boothby, Oren C.
Borofsky, Samuel H.
Bosco, Joseph
Bottomly, Robert J.
Bowen, Robert M.
Boyle, John J., Jr.
Boyle, John M.
Brackman, David M.
Brady, Patrick J.
Breen, John A., Jr.
Brennan, Florence M.
Brennan, Francis J.
Brennan, James H.
Brennan, James J.
Brennan, William E.
Brickley, Bartholomew A.
Brickley, David J.
Brier, Frank L.
Broderick, John H.
Brodhead, John C.
Bromberg, Edward J.
Brophy, Michael J.
Brophy, Patrick J.
Brophy, William F.
Browne, Henry A.
Bryant, Frank E.
Bucci, John J.
Bunton, James H.
Burke, Frank J.
Burke, James T.
Burke, Jeremiah E.
Burke, John J.
Burke, Thomas
Burns, Thomas
Burr, Herbert W.
Burrill, Charles L.
Burroughs, Adolphus M.
Bush, Herman L.
Butler, James F.
Butler, John J.
Byrne, James J.
Callahan, Charles M.
Callahan, Joseph G.
Callahan, Michael T.
Callahan, Thomas F. J.
Campbell, Francis A.
Campbell, Francis J.
Canney, Eugene F.
Canty, George R.
Cardio, Charles J.
Carey, John E.
Carey, John J.
Carney, George P.
Carr, Charles L.
Carr, Patrick B.
Carr, Patrick E.
Carroll, Felix F. J.
Carter, William J.
Carven, Rupert S.
Casey, John M.
Casey, Maurice P.
Cassidy, John J.
Caton, John F., Jr.
Caulfield, James E.
Chapman, Daniel J.
Chapman, Philip A.
Cheever, John J.
Chipman, Grace D.
Chmielinski, Henry H.
Chmiell, Stanley
Church, Fred C.
Cipriano, Joseph
Clark, Ellery H.
Clark, Harry F.
Clark, Henry S.
Clark, Joseph J.
Clark, Nathaniel M.
Clark, Russell B.
Clark, William
Coakley, Daniel H.
Codman, Russell S., Jr.
Cody, James J.
Coffey, James S.
Coffey, Thomas F.
Cohen, Edward E.
Cole, Charles H., Gen.
Coleman, George W.
Collins, Edward D.
Collins, Paul A.
Collins, Walter L.
Colpoys, Francis L.
Comerford, Herman M.
Condon, Edward F.
Conley, Patrick J.
Connell, John J.
Connelly, Daniel T.
Connolly, John T.
Connolly, Stephen J.
Connors, Herbert J.
Connors, John J.
Conroy, John F.
Conry, Joseph A.
Conway, Leo J.
Cook, Alonzo B.
Cook, Sherwin L.
Coolidge, Calvin
Corcoran, Michael H., Jr.
Cosgrove, Joseph F.
Costello, Timothy J.
Cotter, Mary A.
Cotton, William D., Jr.
Coughlin, Arthur J.
Cox, Channing H.
Cox, Edward J.
Cox, Guy W.
Cox, Joseph P.
Coyne, Francis X.
Craven, John J.
Crawford, Joshua U. A.
Crean, Timothy C.
Creed, Edward B.
Creed, William C.
Crocker, Courtenay
Crocker, George U.
Cronin, Bernard M.
Cronin, Frederick A.
Cronin, George F.
Crosby, Harold E.
Crowley, Michael H.
Crowley, Walter P.
Cuddy, William H.
Cummings, John J.
Cummings, Matthew
Cunniff, Michael J.
Cunningham, Owen A.
Curley, Daniel J., Jr.
Curley, James M.
Curley, James M. (Note: microfilm reel has wrong target, says "6")
Curley, James M. (Note: microfilm reel has wrong target, says "7")
Curley, James M.
Curley, John J.
Curley, Thomas F.
Curley, Thomas M.
Curran, Charles L.
Curran, George E.
Curran, John J., Jr.
Curry, Thomas F.
Curtin, J. Frederick
Curtis, Charles P., Jr.
Curtis, Frances G.
Curtis, Laurence, 2nd
Cushing, Grafton D.
Cushman, Frank H.
Dailey, Francis D.
Dalton, James H.
Dalton, Philip S.
Daly, Francis L.
Damoiseau, Edward W.
Danahey, Francis
Davidson, Earl E.
Dawson, James W.
Dawson, Thomas J.
DeCastro, Joseph
Decrow, John W.
Deland, Frank S.
Destefano, Antonio
Deveney, Roger E.
Devin, Edward J.
Devine, Richard J.
Devlin, James H.
Dewey, Henry S.
Dimambro, Joseph A.
Dimento, Frank S.
Dinsmore, Robert A.
Doherty, D. Frank
Doherty, John J.
Doherty, Thomas F.
Doherty, William P.
Dolan, Arthur W.
Dolan, Edmund L.
Donaghue, Peter J.
Donahoe, William J.
Donahue, Frank J.
Donahue, John J.
Donnellan, Frank J.
Donnelly, Joseph P.
Donoghue, John A.
Donovan, George P.
Donovan, John L.
Donovan, Thomas F.
Donovan, Timothy
Donovan, Timothy F.
Donovan, William G.
Dooley, John H.
Doolin, John J.
Dopkeen, Isaiah
Dorsey, James A.
Dorsey, John H.
Douglas, George A.
Dowd, John F.
Dowd, Thomas H.
Dowling, Frederic E.
Dowling, John C. L.
Dowling, Katherine W.
Doyle, James H.
Doyle, Wilfred J.
Doyle, William F.
Doyle, William H.
Driscoll, Jeremiah F.
Driscoll, Timothy J.
Ducey, Francis M.
Ducey, James E.
Duffie, Harold R.
Dunkle, Horace E.
Dunn, John H.
Dwyer, Bernard C.
Dwyer, William F.
Dyar, Perlie A.
Eagan, James F.
Eagles, George R.
Egan, Edward W.
Ellis, David A.
Ely, Joseph B.
Emerson, Guy C.
Englert, Edward L.
Enwright, Frederick W.
Eyges, Leon R.
Fahey, Harold L.
Falcone, Thomas S.
Farley, John H.
Farley, Robert B.
Feeley, Edward J.
Feely, Terence F.
Ferbert, J. Bernard
Ferreira, George E.
Finigan, Frederick A.
Finkel, Sam B.
Finkelstein, Bernard
Finley, James F.
Finn, William F.
Finnegan, Joseph
Finnigan, James E.
Fish, Albert L.
Fish, William A.
Fiske, Robert W.
Fitzgerald, James J.
Fitzgerald, John F.
Fitzgerald, John F.
Fitzgerald, John I.
Fitzgerald, Peter J.
Fitzgerald, Redmond S.
Fitzgerald, Susan W.
Fitzgerald, William J.
Fitzgerald, W. T. A.
Fitzpatrick, Martin
Flannery, James C.
Fletcher, Harry M.
Foley, Charles Timothy
Foley, John T.
Foley, Maurice E.
Foley, Roger M.
Foley, William J.
Ford, Francis J. W.
Foss, Eugene N.
Fouhey, Thomas A.
Fox, Charles James
Fox, Henry A.
Francis, Thomas J.
Freeley, Walter J.
Freeman, Warren F.
French, John J.
Frothingham, Henry A.
Fuller, Alvan Tufts
Fullerton, Edward Dwight
Gallagher, Daniel
Gallagher, Edward M.
Gallagher, Mary
Gallagher, Owen
Gallagher, Robert
Galvin, Walter P.
Ganoway, George H. P.
Garrity, Hugh W.
Garvey, Richard J.
Giardino, Joseph
Gibbons, John T.
Giblin, Edmund W.
Giblin, Thomas J.
Gibson, Aubrey G.
Gillbody, George F.
Gillis, Daniel J.
Gilman, George A.
Ginsburg, Bernard
Ginsburg, Edward E.
Ginsburg, Samuel J.
Gleason, Richard D.
Gleason, Richard F.
Glennon, Leo J.
Glynn, Theodore A.
Glynn, Thomas P.
Goggin, Thomas E.
Goldman, Maurice M.
Goldsmith, Maurice
Goldstein, Meyer
Good, Joseph P.
Goode, James A.
Goodwin, Elliot H.
Goodwin, Frank A.
Gouldey, M. Martin
Grant, James D.
Grant, Walter B.
Gray, Francis C.
Green, James I.
Green, Thomas H.
Greene, C. Hilton
Greene, Thomas P.
Guild, Courtney
Guild, Horace
Guterman, Harry N.
Hackett, William N.
Haddad, George S.
Hagan, Henry E.
Hagerty, Bernard J.
Hall, Archibald F.
Halloran, Leo J.
Hally, T. Russell
Hamilton, Wesley D.
Hancock, John W.
Hanly, John F., Jr.
Hannan, William E.
Hannon, Thomas J., Jr.
Hanrahan, Bernard F.
Harding, Charles T.
Harkins, Bernard C., Jr.
Harrigan, Francis D.
Harrington, William E.
Harris, Frederick J.
Hart, James A.
Hartigan, Joseph F.
Havey, Clayton L.
Hawes, John T.
Hayden, Richard J.
Hayes, James W.
Hays, Martin
Healey, William C. S.
Healy, John J.
Hearn, William
Heath, Victor A.
Heffernan, Joseph M.
Heffernan, Stephen P.
Hein, James
Henderson, James D.
Henderson, William F.
Hennessey, William J.
Hennessey, William S., Jr.
Hersey, Mark L.
Hewitt, Lewis J.
Hickey, Francis J.
Hickey, William P.
Higgins, John P.
Hill, Arthur D.
Hines, Paul H.
Hoban, Peter A.
Holland, William J.
Horgan, Francis J.
Hormel, Herman
Howland, Frank B.
Hultman, Eugene C.
Hurley, James M. J.
Hurley, John F.
Hurley, Joseph J.
Hurwitz, Albert
Imperato, Antonio D.
Innes, Charles H.
Innes, Charles J.
Jackson, James
Jackson, Walter E.
Jacobs, Wilfred E.
Jamieson, Franklin P.
Jennings, Patrick H.
Johnson, George H.
Johnston, Richard E.
Jollimore, Elliott G.
Joyce, Peter J.
Kalish, Abraham H.
Kane, Daniel J.
Kane, John A.
Kaplan, Charles D.
Kasanof, Samuel
Kearns, Daniel D.
Kearns, Patrick A.
Kee, Wallace
Keene, Charles G.
Keene, Roy S.
Keliher, John A.
Kelleher, Daniel J.
Kelleher, William P.
Kelley, Daniel J.
Kelley, Theodore R.
Kelley, Thomas R.
Kelly, Coleman E.
Kelly, Francis E.
Kelly, James F., Jr.
Kelly, John J.
Kelly, John L.
Kelly, William J. (Dorchester)
Kelly, William J. (West Roxbury)
Kenney, John F.
Kenny, Herbert A.
Kerr, J. Ernest
Kerrigan, John E.
Kiernan, Edward L.
Kiernan, Hugh F.
Kiley, Daniel J.
Kiley, James J.
Killilea, Thomas J.
Kilroy, James J.
King, Martin H.
Kinney, William S.
Klinor, Morris M.
Kohler, William J.
Korisky, David
Kravitz, Jacob J.
Lally, William J.
Lane, Benjamin C.
Lane, Daniel W.
Lane, John J.
Lane, Richard C.
Langone, Joseph A.
Langone, Louis
Langone, Michael A.
Lavelle, Thomas D.
Lawler, Henry E.
Lawless, George H.
Leary, George
Leavitt, Thomas
Lebowitz, Louis
Lecain, Levi A.
L'Ecuyer, Eleanor C.
Lee, Joseph
Lee, Martin J.
Lee, Robert V.
Lehan, John L.
Leonard, Albert F.
Leonard, John M.
Leonard, Joseph
Leveroni, Frank
Levine, Louis
Lill, Alfred J., Jr.
Linehan, Frank J.
Lipman, Matthew
Little, Amos R.
Livingston, William W.
Locke, Frank
Logan, Edward L.
Logue, John H.
Lomasney, Joseph (filmed on Reel 20)
Lomasney, Martin M. (filmed on Reel 20)
Long, William P.
Lourie, Moses S.
Luscombe, Florence H.
Lydon, John J.
Lynch, John E.
Lynch, Michael
Lynch, William G.
Lyons, James J.
Lyons, Joseph P.
Lyons, Joseph T.
MacCabe, Joseph B.
McCafferty, George L.
McCaffrey, George H.
McCaffrey, George H., Sr.
McCarthy, Frank J.
McCarthy, Harold E.
McCarthy, James H.
McCarthy, Jeremiah J.
McCarthy, John J.
McCarthy, Timothy E.
McCarthy, William F.
McCormack, John W.
McCullough, Leo F.
McCusker, John J.
McDermott, Michael F.
McDevitt, James J.
Reel 20 contains material about Joseph and Martin M. Lomasney; see above
McDonald, Daniel J.
McDonald, Donald C.
MacDonald, Kenneth C., Jr.
McDonough, Francis G.
McDonough, Joseph M.
McGauley, Walter J.
McGivern, John D.
McGlinchy, Charles H.
McGrath, John J.
McGrath, Joseph
McGuire, Charles P.
Machner, John C.
McHugh, Lawrence P.
McIsaac, Daniel V.
McKenzie, Charles E.
McKinney, Francis B.
McKirdy, Robert K.
McKnight, Edwin T.
McLaughlin, Charles D.
McLaughlin, Edward F.
McLaughlin, Francis A.
MacLean, Lloyd J.
McLeod, Frederick J.
McMackim, Thomas J.
McMahon, Thomas W.
McMasters, William H.
McMorrow, William M.
McNary, William S.
McNutty, Anthony A.
McSweeney, Eugene F.
McSweeney, Frederick R.
McVey, Thomas H.
Madden, W. F.
Maguire, James E.
Maguire, William C.
Mahar, James J.
Mahoney, Francis X.
Mahoney, John V.
Mahoney, Michael J.
Maloney, John F.
Maloney, John J.
Mancovitz, David
Manning, Frank J.
Manning, John P.
Manning, Joseph P.
Manning, Michael J.
Mansfield, Frederick W.
Mansfield, Thomas F.
Marcotte, Joseph N.
Marple, William G.
Marshall, Edwin L.
Martin, Leonard
Mascari, Edward
Maynard, Joseph A.
Mealey, Stephen R.
Mellen, James J.
Melody, Patrick J.
Meo, Dominic, Jr.
Merrick, Stephen D.
Miens, Walter R.
Mildram, Samuel H.
Miller, Lelia W.
Minton, Telfair
Mitchell, Christopher C., Jr.
Molloy, Annie E.
Montague, David T.
Montgomery, John F.
Moors, John F.
Morello, Angelo
Morey, Edward, Jr.
Morgan, William H.
Moriarty, James T.
Moriarty, John J.
Morris, Alfred G.
Motley, William A., Jr.
Mott, Hayward R. C.
Moynihan, James J.
Mulligan, Edward J., Jr.
Mulligan, Lafayette
Mulvey, James J.
Munro, Willis
Murdough, Harry M.
Murphy, Daniel C.
Murphy, Edward F.
Murphy, George F.
Murphy, John F.
Murphy, John J.
Murphy, John R.
Murphy, John R.
Murphy, Michael F.
Murphy, Peter J.
Murray, George A.
Murray, Peter A.
Murray, Thomas W.
Murray, William F., Jr.
Myron, Paul V.
Nee, Coleman J.
Nelson, Eric A.
Nichols, Malcolm E. (filmed on Reel 24)
Nichols, Nathaniel F. P. (filmed on Reel 24)
Niland, Thomas A.
Noonan, Katherine B.
Norton, Clement A.
Noyes, James B.
Nutter, George R.
O'Brien, John F.
O'Brien, Michael J.
O'Brien, Norton C.
Reel 24 contains material about Malcolm E. and Nathaniel Nichols; see above
O'Brien, Thomas C.
O'Brien, Thomas J.
O'Brien, William H.
O'Brien, William J.
O'Connell, Joseph F.
O'Connell, William F.
O'Connor, Charles S.
O'Connor, Daniel
O'Connor, David I.
O'Connor, Ignatius J.
O'Connor, Jeremiah J.
O'Connor, Patrick H.
O'Donnell, James F.
O'Donnell, Richard J.
O'Donnell, William F.
O'Halloran, John A.
O'Hare, J. Frank
O'Hare, John J.
O'Hare, William G.
O'Keefe, Patrick F.
O'Neil, Dennis A.
O'Neil, Joseph H.
Oppenheim, Abe
Page, Christina D.
Paige, Walter N.
Parfumorse, Bernard
Parker, Arthur C.
Parker, Bowdoin S.
Parker, George A.
Parker, Samuel D.
Parkman, Henry, Jr.
Parsons, James A.
Pasqua, George
Paten, Frank P.
Patron, William J.
Pelletier, Joseph C.
Penders, Francis J.
Penshorn, George
Penta, James
Peters, Andrew J. (filmed on Reel 27)
Phelan, James J.
Phelan, Thomas F.
Piemento, Gabriel F.
Pierce, Myron E.
Pigeon, Elizabeth W.
Pinanski, Abraham E.
Pitts, Clement A.
Poladian, George M.
Pollard, David
Pond, J. Waldo
Porter, James M.
Reel 27 contains material about Andrew J. Peters; see above
Post, Adolph J.
Powell, Francis C.
Power, Leo F.
Powers, James F.
Powers, John J.
Powers, Richard J.
Pratt, Lawrence O.
Prescott, William J.
Prest, William M.
Prince, Morton
Purcell, James P. A.
Purcell, James T.
Quigley, James A.
Quigley, Thomas
Quilty, Thomas L.
Quinichett, John H.
Rainey, Julian D.
Reardon, Dennis F.
Reardon, John J.
Reidy, Michael J.
Reilly, Peter A.
Reilly, William A.
Reinhart, Arthur J.
Reth, John W.
Reynolds, George M.
Richardson, Edward M.
Richardson, John S.
Robbins, Catherine A.
Roberts, George W.
Roberts, Isaac L.
Robinson, Frederick A.
Roemer, Edward W.
Romano, Saverio R.
Ronan, William J.
Rooney, Howard F.
Rose, Daniel H.
Rothwell, Bernard J.
Rourke, Joseph A.
Rourke, Louis K.
Ruby, Israel
Russell, Otis T.
Ryan, Edmond W.
Ryan, Morgan T.
Sandberg, Gustave A.
Sanford, Alpheus
Santosuosso, Joseph
Sasserno, Henry A.
Scanlan, William F.
Scannell, David D.
Scannell, Roger F.
Scaramella, Nicholas
Scharton, William R.
Scully, John T.
Seaver, Augustus
Sedgwick, Robert M.
Seiberlich, Frank
Selvitella, Henry
Shamon, Elias F.
Shanahan, Patrick H.
Shattuck, Henry L.
Shaughnessy, Edward J., Jr.
Shaw, David B.
Sheehan, Carrie F.
Sheehan, John F.
Sheehan, Joseph A.
Sheehan, Thomas J. L.
Sheehy, Edward M.
Sheenan, Frederick M. J.
Sheppard, Sherman S.
Sherwood, Frederick A.
Shields, William D.
Shulman, Sadie L.
Silverman, Samuel
Silverman, William M.
Simons, Abraham N.
Slattery, Francis E.
Smedile, Bastian
Smith, Alfred L.
Smith, Earnest E.
Smith, Fitz-Henry, Jr.
Smith, William J.
Sodekson, Nathan S.
Sottili, Salvadore C.
Southard, Louis K.
Spillane, Leo A.
Stone, Elihu D.
Stoneman, David
Strong, Henry H.
Sullivan, Alexander F.
Sullivan, Alexander M.
Sullivan, Arthur V.
Sullivan, Charles S.
Sullivan, Daniel J.
Sullivan, Edward M.
Sullivan, Frank B.
Sullivan, Henry J.
Sullivan, James E.
Sullivan, John A.
Sullivan, Lewis R.
Sullivan, Michael H.
Sullivan, Patrick J. (Ward 5)
Sullivan, Patrick J. (Ward 8)
Sullivan, Stephen C.
Sullivan, Thomas A.
Sullivan, Thomas F.
Sullivan, Ulysses T.
Sullivan, William J.
Sutherland, Albert A.
Sweeney, William D.
Swig, Simon
Symes, George A.
Tague, Peter F.
Taylor, Charles I.
Thomas, Frank J.
Thompson, Daniel
Thompson, David
Thompson, John A.
Tinkham, George H.
Tobin, Martin H.
Tobin, Maurice J.
Tomasello, Joseph A.
Toomey, Frank J.
Tremblay, James S.
Twohig, James J.
Vaccaro, George
Vahey, James H.
Van Wart, Frank S.
Vaughan, John W.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Voye, William E.
Wadsworth, Eliot
Wallace, Edward F.
Wallace, John E.
Wallace, Neil J.
Walsh, David I.
Walsh, John J.
Walsh, Joseph P.
Walsh, Leo D.
Walsh, Michael J.
Walsh, Patrick J.
Walsh, Peter E.
Walsh, Richard M.
Walsh, William J.
Ward, Joseph M.
Ward, Michael J.
Ward, William V.
Wardner, George P.
Ware, Robert J.
Warren, Bentley R.
Watson, James A. (filmed on Reel 31)
Weber, Edmund
Welch, John F.
Wellington, Alfred E.
Whalen, William S.
Wharton, Joseph W.
Whelton, Daniel A.
Whelton, Francis R.
Whipple, Sherman L.
Whiteside, Alexander
Wiesman, Margaret
Willebrandt, Mabel W.
Williams, Charles W. M.
Williams, Frederick M.
Wilson, George E.
Wilson, Harold D.
Wilson, Herbert A.
Wilson, Robert G., Jr.
Winchester, Charles A.
Wood, George O.
Woodford, William J.
Woods, Arthur F.
Woods, William H.
Wragg, Walter E.
Wyche, John E.
Zetterman, Axel E.
Reel 31 contains material about James A. Watson; see above
Candidate files additions, A-F (NOT ON MICROFILM)
II. General records, 1900-1935
This series includes institutional correspondence and other papers, 1903-1935; alphabetical member records, 1903-1933; publication committee records; local government spending records; and ephemera and printed miscellany.
General records, 1903-Nov. 1925
General records, Dec. 1925-1927
General records, 1928-July 1929
General records, Aug. 1929-1930
General records, 1931-Sep. 1932
General records, Oct. 1932-1935; ephemera; printed miscellany
Alphabetical member records, A–J
Alphabetical member records, K–Z
Publication Committee, City Affairs
Monitoring local government spending (carriage records)
III. Financial records, 1900-1933
This series includes both loose financial papers, 1905-1933, and financial volumes, 1901-1933, as well as a record of donations to the organization.
Financial records, 1905-1920
Financial records, 1921-1933
Contributions book, 1900-1905
Cash book, 1901-1908
Cash book, 1909-1914
Cash book, 1914-1919
Cash book, 1917-1927
Cash book, 1919-1923
Cash book, 1923-1927
Cash book, 1928-1933
Cash book, 1933
Donations book, A-K
Donations book, L-Z
IV. Subject files, 1901-1933
Arranged alphabetically in two sequences.
This series contains two subseries of subject files dated mostly 1901-1919 and 1920-1933. The original arrangement of the material by the Good Government Association has been maintained. The files are mainly (but not exclusively) composed of newspaper clippings glued onto boards, slightly larger than 8 1/2 x 14" paper, so that many of the pages have been photocopied and reduced. Also included is loose correspondence, notes, memoranda, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous printed material. Newspaper clippings have been discarded, and only photocopies have been retained with other (non-newspaper) material.
A. Subject files I, 1901-1933; bulk: 1901-1919
Contents lists/original boxes
Americanization Committee, 1920-1926
Appointments, 1911-1912
Assessing Department, 1906-1920
Auditor's Office, 1906-1910
"Boston 1915"
Boston Common, 1915-1920
Boston Elevated Railroad, 1906-1919
Budget, 1914-1916
Budget, 1916-1918
Bureau of Municipal Research
Candidates, 1910-1914
Chamber of Commerce
Charter/petition
Charter
Citizens' Municipal League, 1909-1913
City Council campaign, 1911-1915
City Council campaign, 1915-1919
City debt limit, 1911-1923
City Hall, 1906-1907
Civil Service, 1906-1919
Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918
Contracts, 1906-1921
Democratic City Committee
Election Department, 1905-1920
Fenway case, 1905-1907
Finance Commission, 1906-1919
Fire Department, 1905-1919
Fire Department
Garbage
Good Government Association, 1915-1922
Greater Boston, 1919
Infirmary Department
Lighting (city), 1906-1921
Lighting (street)
Mayoralty campaign, 1917
Park and Recreation Department, 1914-1920
Payrolls, 1905-1914
Penal institutions, 1915-1920
Pension Department, 1910-1912
Police Department, 1903-1924
Police strike, 1919
Police strike, 1919-1921
Political advertising, 1909-1922
Public Buildings Department, 1905-1917
Public Works Department, 1909-1919
Redistricting, 1914-1916
Redistricting, 1914-1918
School Department, 1905-1919
State Finance Commission, 1906-1926
Supply Department, 1907-1919
Taxes, 1906-1919
Traffic, 1916-1919
Zoning, 1922-1933
Index to old boxes
B. Subject files II, 1904-1933; bulk: 1920-1933
Accounting system
Airport, 1921-1933
Appointments, 1912-1933
Appropriation Limits Bill, 1933
Assessing Department, 1920-1933
Auditor Department, 1918-1932
Auditorium, 1927-1932
Automobile insurance, 1930-1932
Automobile rental, 1931
Baldwin Place Synagogue, graft probe, 1922-1923
Baseball scandal, 1928-1929
Boston Charter, 1920-1933
Boston Charter Association, 1911-1912
Boston Charter Association, 1912-Mar. 1920
Boston Charter Association, Apr. 1920-June 1924
Boston Charter Association, Sep. 1924-1928
Boston Charter revision, 1923-1933
Boston City Hospital, 1928
Boston Common, 1920-1932
Boston Elevated stock speculation, 1921
Boston League of Women Voters, 1921-1930
Boston Port Development Company, 1931
Boston Real Estate Exchange, 1927-1933
Boston Relief Fund, 1932-1933
Boston Research Bureau, 1931-1933
Boston Tercentenary Commission, 1923-1930
Budget, 1919-1933
Buildings, 1921-1933
Cambridge Street, 1923-1924
Cartoons, 1930-1933
Cemetery Act, 1933
Censorship, 1930-1933
Census, 1920-1933
Chamber of Commerce, 1931-1933
Charles River Basin, 1929-1931
City Affairs and Your Business (publications), 1922-1930
City Council & city elections, 1904-1933
City Council & city elections, 1927-1931
City debt, 1919-1933
City finances, 1917-1933
City Hall, 1920-1933
City manager plan
City planning, 1923-1933
City Record
Civic Center, 1930-1931
Civil Service Commission, 1915-1933
Claims (civil suits), 1930-1933
Columbus Park scandal, 1924-1930
Commercial, Industrial, and Publicity Bureau, 1930-1933
Contracts, 1930-1931
Contracts, 1922-1933
Court House, 1922-1932
Courts, 1930-1933
Democratic City Committee, 1921-1933
Democratic State Committee, 1930
District attorney investigations, 1921-1926
Dock Square, 1926-1930
Dorchester Brokers' Association, 1931
East Boston Strandway
East Boston Tunnel, 1925-1933
Election Department, 1920-1933
Elevated Railway, 1919-1933
Employment, 1917-1933
Equal Tax League, 1932-1933
Exchange Street widening, 1926-1929
Exhibits, 1931-1932
Fare Bill (elevated railway), 1922
Ferry service, 1929-1933
Finance Commission, 1919-1933
Fire Department, 1916-1933
General Court, 1931
General government, 1921-1933
Good Government Association, 1916-1930
Good Government Association, 1930-1933
Greater Boston, 1920-1932
Health Department, 1922-1933
Hospital Department, 1920-1933
Income tax exemption, 1923
Industrial Bank and Trust Co.
Initiative and referendum provisions
Institutions Department, 1920-1933
International Peace Congress, 1904
Jury system, 1922-1923
Ku Klux Klan
Land takings, 1926-1933
Law Department, 1918-1933
Legislature, 1932-1933
Library, 1925-1933
License and permits, 1931-1933
Loans, 1921-1933
Loyal Coalition flag, 1920-1923
Markets, 1930-1933
Massachusetts Real Estate Owners Association, 1931-1933
Massachusetts Tax Association, 1932
Mayoralty campaign, 1920-1929
Mayoralty campaign, 1929-1933
Meters (water), 1929-1930
Metropolitan Boston, 1924-1932
Metropolitan Planning Commission, 1923-1933
Miscellaneous, 1931
New England States Century of Progress Exposition, 1930-1931
Noise, 1933
North Station project, 1927
Omnibus lines, 1924-1929
Parks Department, 1916-1933
Pay-as-you-go policy, 1931
Penal institutions, 1924-1933
Pension Department, 1920-1933
Personnel
Pickwick Club disaster, 1925
Plain Talkmagazine, 1929-1930
Police, 1920-1933
Port of Boston, 1930-1933
Post Office, 1922-1933
Prado (North End)
Printing Department, 1930-1933
Proportional representation, 1922
Proportional representation, 1923-1924
Proportional representation, 1925-1933
Public Buildings Department, 1918-1933
Public celebrations, 1925-1933
Public health
Public utilities, 1921-1931
Public welfare, 1925-1933
Public Works Department, 1920-1933
Public Works Department, 1924-1933
Recreation, 1933
Redistricting, 1931
Referenda, 1924-1930
Reorganization of GGA, 1921-1928
Republican City Committee, 1932-1933
Salaries (municipal), 1920-1933
Sale of property, 1930-1932
Sanitary Service, 1926-1933
School Committee, 1925-1933
School Department, 1920-1933
Schoolhouse Commission, 1925-1933
Soldiers' Relief Department
State Board of Tax Appeals
State election laws
State Finance Commission
State House
Streets, 1914-1933
Street Commission, 1924-1933
Street Laying Out Department, 1925-1931
Street signs, 1924-1927
Street widening
Stuart Street, 1921-1922
Suffolk County, 1921-1931
Supply Department, 1920-1933
Taxes, 1907-1933
Tax Limit, 1922-1933
Taxi stands, 1929-1933
Thoroughfare plan, 1925-1931
Traffic Commission, 1920-1933
Transit Board, 1920-1933
Treasury Department, 1921-1931
Treasury scandal (J. A. Daly), 1921
Trust funds, 1920-1932
Tunnels, 1921-1929
Voting machines
Ward lines, 1924-1925
Water Department, 1920-1932
White Fund, 1922-1933
"Whitewash," 1931
Young's Hotel, 1933
"Temporary clipping file," undated and 1930-1933
Clipping index, 1920-1933
V. Miscellaneous papers, 1908-1936
This series consists of two sets of papers filed separately by the Good Government Association. Included is correspondence of Lincoln Steffens, who was hired by the Executive Committee to research and report on the political situation in Boston. His report (in book form) was not published, but some controversy regarding the report surfaced in 1931 when Steffens published his autobiography, which contained references to his investigations. This series also contains manuscripts, typescripts, and notes of George Nutter for a history of the Good Government Association.
Lincoln Steffens correspondence, 1908-1915, 1931
George Nutter's papers, from Charles Nutter, 1933-1936
VI. Scrapbooks, 1900-1933
These scrapbooks, which contain newspapers clippings and other printed material, have been photocopied and boxed using the volume numbers supplied by the Good Government Association. (Vols. 1a, 2a, and 3a were not numbered by the association.) The original scrapbooks have been discarded due to the poor condition of the newspaper clippings.
General clippings, 1900-1903
General clippings, 1904-1905
Citizens' movement; Louis A. Frothingham, 1905
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, 1907-1908
Censorship, traffic, 1911-1916
John F. Fitzgerald, Susan W. Fitzgerald, School Committee election, 1911-1913
Fire codes, fire stations, transit, 1911-1915
"Boston 1915" movement, city water use, 1909-1912
Boston Charter, miscellaneous topics, 1909
Boston Charter, 1909
Boston Charter, 1909
Boston Charter, Election Department, 1907-1913
Boston Charter, 1914-1915
Charter Association, 1910-1914
Charter Referendum, 1909
City Council, 1911-1915
City lighting, Bridge Department, 1906-1914
City lighting, 1912-1915
Civil service, School Department, 1909-1916
Finance Commission, 1906-1914
Finance Commission, 1914-1917
Waste disposal, 1911-1915
Miscellaneous GGA clippings, 1903-1916
Miscellaneous GGA clippings, 1905-1913
Hospital, Health, Fire Departments, 1906-1916
Health Department, 1913-1919
Mayoralty campaign (1), 1913
Mayoralty campaign (2), 1913-1914
Mayoralty campaign (3), 1914
Mayoralty campaign (4), 1914
Parks Department (including zoo), bath houses, 1907-1914
Sewer Department, Public Buildings Department, 1906-1915
Public Buildings Department, 1912-1916
Schools, 1911-1917
State House affairs, 1906-1908
State House affairs, 1908-1910
Streets, 1907-1915
Streets, 1915-1916
Waste disposal, 1907-1915
Ward Committee correspondence, 1905-1908
Candidate information brochures, 1901-1905
Candidate information brochures, 1906-1916
Candidate information brochures, 1918-1933
Campaign literature and circulars, 1914-1916
GGA publications and circulars, 1903-1907
GGA publications and circulars, 1908-1912
GGA publications and circulars, 1913-1930
Loose materials found on shelves near scrapbooks, miscellaneous topics, undated, 1903
Preferred Citation
Good Government Association records, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Good Government Association photographs (unprocessed) (Photo. Coll. 500.92).