Document · photograph
Boston. East Boston airport
Boston. East Boston airport, 1925 — Cities & towns, Airports. 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: 43225 Image caption: Boston airport. East Boston in the background.
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Boston Public Library
- Published, as stated
- 1925
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 200953 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
4a34ca8c2cd77b3554fd430b0dc2f8641772fe1407445319bf5f5a1bf0850bfe
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 airport, 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 airport 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 4a34ca8c2cd77b3554fd430b0dc2f8641772fe1407445319bf5f5a1bf0850bfe. 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 airport, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston. East Boston airport 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 — Boston
- depicts — East Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:boston-east-boston-airport
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-east-boston-airport
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-east-boston-airport.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:8k71nz39k
- Attribution
- Boston Public Library
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |