Document · photograph
A dog, Back Bay Fens
A dog, Back Bay Fens, 1937 — Dogs. Held by Boston Public Library, John B. Sanromá Photograph Collection. Title supplied by cataloger.
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Boston Public Library
- Published, as stated
- 1937
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 160112 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
6cda84fa6e3e72f3a63756de5e2658e00eb432f4692f4c8b9397447053ad9aa3
Questions this record answers
Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.
Who wrote A dog, Back Bay Fens, and who published it?
Boston Public Library published it, 1937.
Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Does the archive hold A dog, Back Bay Fens itself, or only the record of it?
The archive holds the bytes. Their digest, computed on the bytes as retrieved and before any transform, is SHA-256 6cda84fa6e3e72f3a63756de5e2658e00eb432f4692f4c8b9397447053ad9aa3. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.
Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
What does the archive hold for A dog, Back Bay Fens, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of A dog, Back Bay Fens from Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Boston Public Library.
Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
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Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:a-dog-back-bay-fens
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/a-dog-back-bay-fens
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/a-dog-back-bay-fens.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Boston Public Library digital collections — source of record
- License
- No Copyright - United States (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- commonwealth:sf26hm108
- Attribution
- Boston Public Library
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.
Transform ladder
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| 2 | fetch | retrieved the item's metadata record from the Digital Commonwealth search API and its image from the IIIF image service at 1200 pixels on the long edge | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | digest | computed the SHA-256 of the bytes as retrieved, before any other step | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 4 | stage | wrote the bytes to the staging directory under their content address, for preservation into the object store at that same address | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 5 | link | tied the record to the places this archive already holds that the item's own geographic subjects name; no entity was created to receive a link | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |