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Boston. East Boston

Boston. East Boston, 1925 — Cities & towns, Neighborhoods, Waterfronts. 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. Airview number is: 43241 Image caption: Noddle Island, Winthrop, & East Boston, looking towards Lynn. Handwritten note on item indicates that the image is…

Document

Type
photograph
Publisher
Boston Public Library
Published, as stated
1925
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
266449 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
f559c1f5be74e62333e08687e0ef13a33d25f2a90c75711ddbc100732d2588f6

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. East Boston, and who published it?

Boston Public Library published it, 1925.

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

Does the archive hold Boston. East Boston 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 f559c1f5be74e62333e08687e0ef13a33d25f2a90c75711ddbc100732d2588f6. 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 Boston. East Boston, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston. East Boston 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:boston-east-boston-4
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/boston-east-boston-4
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/boston-east-boston-4.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:8k71nz13f
Attribution
Boston Public Library
Rights as stated
No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.

Transform ladder

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2fetchretrieved 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 edgearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3digestcomputed the SHA-256 of the bytes as retrieved, before any other steparchive-ingest 0.1.0
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