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Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20

Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20, May 20, 1900. Held by Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School, General Draper Memorial Library. Title supplied by cataloger. Signature - U.S. Senate stationary.

Document

Type
manuscript
Publisher
Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School
Published
1900-05-20
Published, as stated
May 20, 1900
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
50269 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
f5be51b2af61d689b9ebe202eee544c8d770efb286b26a1bf1813e6d2ac91631

Questions this record answers

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Who wrote Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20, and who published it?

Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School published it, 1900-05-20.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Does the archive hold Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20 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 f5be51b2af61d689b9ebe202eee544c8d770efb286b26a1bf1813e6d2ac91631. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

What does the archive hold for Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Autograph of W.A. Clark, Washington, DC, to Darwin D. Pavey, Boston 1900 May 20 from Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:autograph-of-w-a-clark-washington-dc-to-darwin-d-pavey-boston-1900-may-20
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/autograph-of-w-a-clark-washington-dc-to-darwin-d-pavey-boston-1900-may-20
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/autograph-of-w-a-clark-washington-dc-to-darwin-d-pavey-boston-1900-may-20.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online — source of record
License
No known copyright restrictions (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
commonwealth:xp68rv752
Attribution
Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School
Rights as stated
No known copyright restrictions.

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