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Boston Harbor, Massachusetts

Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, [1908] — Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps, Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Harbor, Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps. Held by Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection. Shows Commonwealth's lands or flats, lands owned or leased by railroads, and channels dredged or being dredged. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. "Commonwealth of…

Document

Type
map
Publisher
Boston Public Library
Published, as stated
[1908]
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
257897 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
1d3613ee1ef6509d914182bb5de252cfd94925894f3ae8f38ce4c78626b25770

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Who wrote Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, and who published it?

Boston Public Library published it, [1908].

Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

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What does the archive hold for Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, and under what license?

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Attested by: Boston Public Library digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:boston-harbor-massachusetts
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/boston-harbor-massachusetts
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/boston-harbor-massachusetts.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Boston Public Library digital collections — source of record
License
No known copyright restrictions (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
commonwealth:34852p24z
Attribution
Boston Public Library
Rights as stated
No known copyright restrictions. (holding institution's determination), corroborated by the item's own date of 1908 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States

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