Inner Belt Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: CHC021
Scope and Content
This collection contains 246 scrapbook pages containing one or more news clippings per page detailing the saga of the Inner Belt campaign. Pages contain maps and plans regarding the Inner Belt, as well as letters, news clippings, and ephemera recording opposition to the highway project.
Dates
- ca. 1960-1969
Language of Materials
Material in English.
Access Restrictions
Collection is available for research under the CHC rules of use.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question, unless otherwise designated.
Extent
1 flat box
Abstract
Collection Description: Scrapbook pages detailing the saga of the Inner Belt campaign. Pages contain maps and plans regarding the Inner Belt, as well as letters, news clippings, and ephemera recording opposition to the highway project. Clippings come from the Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, Record American, and other area newspapers of the time. All pages have been scanned and are available in digital format.
Abstract
Historical Note: The Inner Belt was once a planned highway that would have been Interstate 695. The Inner Belt was proposed in the mid-1950s with plans moving along for the following decade. If built, this highway would have run a route through parts of Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, and Brookline. Many citizens protested the plan as it would have divided neighborhoods and displaced thousands of residents. The Inner Belt plan was abandoned in 1971.
Collection Arrangement
Materials arranged as they were donated.
Physical Location
831 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA 617-349-4683 egonzalez@cambridgema.gov
Acquisition Information
From the Cambridge Planning Board
Processing Information
Processed by Meta Partenheimer, 2017
Encoded by Meta Partenheimer, 2018
Encoded by Meta Partenheimer, 2018
- Title
- Inventory of the Inner Belt Scrapbook, ca. 1960-1969
- Author
- Processing by: Meta Partenheimer, October 2017; machine-readable finding aid by: Meta Partenheimer
- Date
- © 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge Historical Commission Archives Repository
Contact:
831 Massachusetts Avenue
2nd Floor
Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 US
617-349-4683
histcomm@cambridgema.gov
831 Massachusetts Avenue
2nd Floor
Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 US
617-349-4683
histcomm@cambridgema.gov