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• White Slaves: or, The Oppression of the Worthy Poor (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1893), by Louis Albert Banks (Gutenberg text)
• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• White slaves : or, The oppression of the worthy poor / by Louis Albert Banks. (Lee and Shepard, 1892), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's lodging house and other tenement sketches (Copeland and Day, 1895), by Alvan Francis Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• White slaves : or the oppression of the worthy poor (Lee and Shepard, 1893), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles and results of the ministry at large : in Boston (J. Munroe, 1838), by Joseph Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee of the City Council on the relations of the Overseers of the Poor. (s.n., 1824), by Boston City Council, Israel Thorndike Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Boston (Mass.). Overseers of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Boston :, 1800), by Boston (Mass.). Department of Public Institutions and Boston (Mass.). Benevolent and moral institutions and societies (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual for the use of the Overseer of the poor in the city of Boston (J.E. Farwell and company, printers to the city, 1866), by Boston (Mass.). Overseers of the Poor, Boston (Mass.), and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution of The Widows' Society; together with some account of the institution, and of its proceedings to the present period: (Treadwell's power press., 1823), by Boston Widows' Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry in the town of Boston. ([Boston, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1821?], 1821), by Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry and Josiah Quincy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of Commission on the Treatment of the Poor, 1878 (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1878), by Boston (Mass.). Commission on the Treatment of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board of Visitors to the Public Institutions. (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1894), by Boston (Mass.). Board of Visitors to the Public Institutions (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston. (Municipal Printing Office, 1864), by Boston. Board of Overseers of the Poor and Board of Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee on the expediency of providing better tenements for the poor (Eastburn's Press, 1846), by S. H. Perkins and Boston (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• HUD's policies on multifamily housing : the Boston experience : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, November 14, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Explanation of the views of the Society for Employing the Poor : with the constitution and by-laws; and an extract from the report of the managers, for the first three months, and a list of subscribers' names. ([s.n.], 1820), by Society for Employing the Female Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An explanation of the views of the Society for Employing the Female Poor : with the constitution and by-laws, and extracts from several reports. (Hilliard and Metcalf, 1825), by Society for Employing the Female Poor and John Gallison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medical relief to the poor, September, 1877. (Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1877), by William R. Lawrence and Boston Dispensary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Welfare reform and access to jobs in Boston (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1998), by Annalynn Lacombe, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.), and United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Welfare reform and access to jobs in Boston (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1998), by Annalynn Lacombe, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.), and United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The history of public poor releif in Massachusetts, 1620-1920 (Houghton Mifflin company, 1922), by Robert W. Kelso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1964), by Massachusetts. Special Commission on Low-Income Housing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of laws relating to the Department of Public Welfare of Massachusetts. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1922), by Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstracts of the returns relating to the poor, and to indigent children ... (W. White, Printer, 1857), by Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of the returns of the overseers of the poor in Massachusetts, for the year ending November 1, 1848 ([Boston, 1849), by Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth and William B. Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstracts of the returns relating to the poor ... ([Boston], 1833), by Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust)

• City of Cambridge : the Mayor's address at the organization of the city government, and reports of the Committee on Finance, the Overseers of the Poor, and the School Committee. (John Ford & Co., 1852), by Cambridge (Mass.). Mayor and George Stevens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rules, regulations and by-laws. (Cambridge, Mass., 1903), by Mass. Overseers of the Poor Cambridge and Charles Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Overseers of the poor of Haverhill (Mass.) records, 1838-1843. (1838), by Haverhill (Mass.). Overseers of the poor, Bradford (Mass.). Overseers of the poor, and Greenfield (Mass.). Overseers of the poor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Union for Home Work, Pittsfield, Mass. : Reports for the year 1892-1893. (Press of the Sun Printing Company, 1893), by Union for Home Work (page images at HathiTrust)

• The organization and administration of the pauper department of Springfield, Mass; report of a survey. (Springfield, 1914), by Springfield Bureau of Municipal Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report. (Worcester., 1871), by Worcester (Mass.). Overseers of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report. (Dept. of Community Affairs, 1969), by Massachusetts. Dept. of Community Affairs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A low income housing handbook (Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare, 1972), by Mary E. Hirsch and Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liquidation of federally aided housing projects (Wright & Potter, legislative printers, 1957), by Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Bureau and Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of a method for determining relative housing demand (Board and the Dept., 1949), by Massachusetts. State Housing Board and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics. Statistics Group (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Regulations prescribing lease provisions for public housing : promulgated February 22, 1973 (The Department, 1973), by Massachusetts. Dept. of Community Affairs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Final report of the Special Commission on Low-Income Housing : created by Chapter 107 of the Resolves of 1964. (Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1964), by Massachusetts. Special Commission on Low-Income Housing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poor-laws of Massachusetts and New York, with appendices containing the United States immigration and contract-labor laws; by John Cummings. (Pub. for the American economic association, by Macmillan & company; [etc., etc.], 1895), by John Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The settlement laws of Massachusetts in their application to poor relief outside institutions : with citation of some of the leading judicial decisions in the last thirty years and practical suggestions to visitors among the poor (G. E. Ellis, 1900), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the laws of Massachusetts, relative to the settlement, support, employment and removal of paupers (Printed by John Denio, 1810), by Jonathan 1764-1831 Leavitt and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act to provide for the relief and support of the poor ([Boston], 1791), by Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the expediency of revising the system of administration of the public charities of the commonwealth, December, 1877. (Rand, Avery, & co., printers to the commonwealth, 1878), by Massachusetts. Commission on revising the system of administration of public charities, Estes Howe, John E. Tyler, and J. P. Bradlee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor debtor law of Massachusetts. (Little, 1883), by Charles Edward Grinell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home heating crisis : field hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on examining the home heating crisis, focusing on the responsibility of our national government to respond to the needs of families that are facing enormous personal challenges, January 17, 2008 (Boston, MA). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)

• The disfranchisement of paupers : examination of the law of Massachusetts (Little, Brown, 1878), by Charles Theodore Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)
• History of the Humane society of the commonwealth of Massachusetts with a selected list of premiums awarded by the trustees, from its commencement to the present time, and a list of the members and officers. (Press of T. R. Marvin & son, 1876), by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• First annual report of the Board of State Charities: to which are added the reports of the secretary, and the general agent of the Board. January, 1865 1864/65 (Wright & Potter, 1864), by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bureau of Statistics, Charles F. Gettemy, director (Wright & Potter Printing Co., state printers, 1916), by Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics and Charles F. Gettemy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The next question (The author, 1927), by Edith Hamilton MacFadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report, February 1897. (Boston, 1897), by Massachusetts. Commission to Investigate the Charitable and Reformatory Interests and Institutions of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Its act of incorporation; historical and statistical memoranda; constitution; list of officers and members, etc., etc. (W. Richardson, 1879), by Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public charities of Massachusetts during the century ending Jan. 1, 1876: a report made to the Massachusetts Centennial Commission, Feb. 1, 1876, under direction of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1876), by Massachusetts Board of State Charities, F. B. Sanborn, and Massachusetts. Centennial Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• First annual report of the Board of State Charities: to which are added the reports of the secretary, and the general agent of the Board. January, 1865 1864/65 (Wright & Potter, 1864), by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of social service work at the Massachusetts charitable eye and ear infirmary. ([Boston], between 1000 and 1999), by Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Boston, 1864), by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statements and evidence offered before the committee on state charities of the Massachusetts legislature : in favor of the modification of the tax on alien passengers, March, 1870. (Barker, Cotter & Co., 1870), by Massachusetts. General Court (1870). Committee on state charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Board of State Charities (Wright & Potter, 1864), by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message from the governor and report on reorganization of boards and commissions having supervision and control of state institutions. Feb. 7, 1914. (Wright & Potter printing co., 1914), by Massachusetts. Commission on Economy and Efficiency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report (Boston., 1920), by Massachusetts. Department of Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission to investigate the public charitable and reformatory interests and institutions of the Commonwealth : February, 1897. (Wright & Potter, 1897), by Massachusetts. Commission on Charitable and Reformatory Interests and Institutions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Present system of public charity in Massachusetts and changes recommended by the Commission ... ([Boston, 1897), by Massachusetts. Commission to Investigate the Charitable and Reformatory Interests and Institutions of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : with a selected list of premiums ... and a list of the members and officers (T.R. Marvin, 1876), by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual for boards of public welfare in Massachusetts. ([Boston, 1932), by Massachusetts. Department of Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Special Commission established to study and revise the laws relating to public welfare ... ([Boston, 1936), by Massachusetts. Special Commission to Study and Revise Laws Relating to Public Welfare and Theodore Robinson Plunkett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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