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Back Bay from Beacon Hill

Back Bay from Beacon Hill, [ca. 1891–1902] — Residential streets. Held by Boston Public Library, Boston Pictorial Archive. Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library. Additional information on item: Beacon St. towards Copley Sq. Handwritten note on item verso: With Christmas greetings. E. D. M.

Document

Type
photograph
Publisher
Boston Public Library
Published, as stated
[ca. 1891–1902]
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
204262 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
e3232e24e1e915c027cc4e6c2dab8c5c8fbfd19b5d605ad7bcd1a46febe99ae9

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 Back Bay from Beacon Hill, and who published it?

Boston Public Library published it, [ca. 1891–1902].

Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.

Does the archive hold Back Bay from Beacon Hill 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 e3232e24e1e915c027cc4e6c2dab8c5c8fbfd19b5d605ad7bcd1a46febe99ae9. 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 Back Bay from Beacon Hill, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Back Bay from Beacon Hill 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.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:back-bay-from-beacon-hill
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/back-bay-from-beacon-hill
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/back-bay-from-beacon-hill.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:1g05ht67m
Attribution
Boston Public Library
Rights as stated
No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.

Transform ladder

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4stagewrote the bytes to the staging directory under their content address, for preservation into the object store at that same addressarchive-ingest 0.1.0
5linktied the record to the places this archive already holds that the item's own geographic subjects name; no entity was created to receive a linkarchive-ingest 0.1.0