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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The BSO Archives
Symphony Hall
Boston MA 02115
617-638-9434
Hours of operation: By appointment only
The BSO Archives: Preserving the Treasures of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Where can you find correspondence between BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson and Sir George Grove (of music dictionary fame)? reviews of Seiji Ozawa's very first conducting appearance with the BSO? a program book from the first BSO concerts in the Berkshires? Serge Koussevitzky's speeches for the annual opening exercises of the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood Music Center)? posters from BSO international tours? newspaper accounts of Arthur Fiedler's first Esplanade concert in 1929? All this and more can be found in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives at Symphony Hall. The Archives preserves the orchestra's rich history with documentation in the form of concert programs, press clippings, posters, photographs, original letters, paintings, broadcast tapes, recordings and films as well as the BSO's collection of historic musical instruments.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library
The Mary Baker Eddy Library houses the largest multi-disciplinary collection of an American woman ever assembled under one roof. On four floors, state-of-the-art library and archival facilities feature Mary Baker Eddy's published and unpublished writings, including thousands of pages of her manuscripts, letters and correspondence, and related documents.The Library also houses:

Over 7,000 three-dimensional artifacts
About 8,000 historic photographs
Over 400 editions of Mary Baker Eddy's principal work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
A valuable reference library of 10,000 volumes covering contemporary and historical issues including spirituality and healing, women in American religious leadership, and other topics within the Library's areas of focus.

The Library's collection is publicly available to visitors, scholars and researchers in the reference library, which includes copies of archival documents, photographs, and artifacts, as well as a computerized catalogue of the collection. Access to the original primary source material is also available by appointment in the research library. For more information about the archival collection, visit The Library online at http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org

Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Institutional Archives
617-732-2803

Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 536-1608
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major research library and manuscript repository. Its holdings encompass millions of rare and unique documents and artifacts vital to the study of American history, many of them irreplaceable national treasures. A few examples include correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, such as her famous "remember the ladies" letter (view letter); several imprints of the Declaration of Independence; and the pen that Abraham Lincoln used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

Museum of Fine Arts
Museum Archives
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02115
617-369-3378
Museum admission is not required for access to the Museum Archives.
The Museum Archives was founded in 1987. The Archives contains more 1,000 cubic feet of historically significant records from the museum's administrative and curatorial departments dating from 1870 to the present. The Archives also houses a portion of the archival records from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Museum School Archives
617-369-3650
Hours of operation: By appointment only.

Simmons College
The Simmons College Archives and Special Collections
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA
617-521-2268
617-521-2440
Email College Archivist claire.goodwin@simmons.edu
Hours of operation:
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Friday: by appointment only
Saturday and Sunday: closed
The Simmons College Archives and Special Collections Department was established in 1974 to collect, preserve, and organize the historic records of Simmons College. In 1980, the Archives was dedicated to the memory of Colonel Miriam E. Perry Goll ('30). Simmons College was founded in 1902 "to furnish to women instruction and training in such branches of art, science, and industry as may be serviceable in enabling them to acquire a livelihood." The Archives and Special Collections holdings reflect the unique professional character of the College and its early commitment to training women in nursing, secretarial/management work, retailing, library science, social work, home economics and teaching. The department is open to students, faculty, alumnae, and other interested researchers.

Wentworth Institute of Technology
The Wentworth Archives
Huntington Avenue
Room 208M on the Mezzanine floor of Beatty Hall
Hours of Operation: Wednesday and Thursday 5:30pm-10:00pm and a half-day on Saturday.
Established by the Alumni library in 1982 to collect, describe and preserve the administrative and historically valuable records of the Institute. The Archives also maintains the official records of the engineering technology division of ASEE and the Fenway Libraries Online (FLO).
The Archives collections provide information on the Institute's teaching, faculty, administrators, alumni, campus buildings and development, and student life. All permanent records received by the Wentworth Archives are maintained in collections according to who created them whether that is a college office or department, a faculty member, an association or a private individual.