Document · photograph
Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library
Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library, [ca. 1865–1914] — Public libraries. Held by Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection, 1890-1920. Title supplied by cataloger.
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
- Published, as stated
- [ca. 1865–1914]
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 203174 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
7c2e545796f889e6ea907ea552ddb23bf5769d7ebc9749bd1a1bc63e0d8762ad
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 Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library, and who published it?
Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum published it, [ca. 1865–1914].
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.
Does the archive hold Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library 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 7c2e545796f889e6ea907ea552ddb23bf5769d7ebc9749bd1a1bc63e0d8762ad. 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 Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston, Copley Square, Boston Public Library 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 Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.
Related records
- depicts — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:boston-copley-square-boston-public-library
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-copley-square-boston-public-library
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-copley-square-boston-public-library.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:2b88sp06f
- Attribution
- Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
- Rights as stated
- No known copyright restrictions.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
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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 |