Document · photograph
A man next to a dog, Back Bay Fens
A man next to 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
- 167569 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
5a354148419de8e4f65305e9a6348b5b87550242437d1a5c55b8df966a0aa487
Questions this record answers
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Who wrote A man next to 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 man next to 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 5a354148419de8e4f65305e9a6348b5b87550242437d1a5c55b8df966a0aa487. 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 man next to a dog, Back Bay Fens, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of A man next to 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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- depicts — Beacon Hill
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Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:a-man-next-to-a-dog-back-bay-fens
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/a-man-next-to-a-dog-back-bay-fens
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/a-man-next-to-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:hd771f44z
- Attribution
- Boston Public Library
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.
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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 |