Document · photograph
Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower
Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower, [ca. 1925] — Cities & towns. Held by Boston Public Library, Boston Pictorial Archive. Title and date from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Boston Public Library
- Published, as stated
- [ca. 1925]
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 253192 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
d827129cbbee281a7cde36386a24b4cdea6513a4b98d7bd4681607cd74b6f08e
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 Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower, and who published it?
Boston Public Library published it, [ca. 1925].
Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Does the archive hold Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower 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 d827129cbbee281a7cde36386a24b4cdea6513a4b98d7bd4681607cd74b6f08e. 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 Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Beacon Hill and Back Bay from the Custom House tower 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
- depicts — Back Bay
- depicts — Beacon Hill
- depicts — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:beacon-hill-and-back-bay-from-the-custom-house-tower
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/beacon-hill-and-back-bay-from-the-custom-house-tower
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/beacon-hill-and-back-bay-from-the-custom-house-tower.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:q811kp17r
- Attribution
- Boston Public Library
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.
Transform ladder
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| 1 | gate | read this ITEM's own rights determination from rightsstatement_uri_ss and its corroborating fields, and refused to proceed further until it cleared | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 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 |