Document · photograph
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts, 1938-01-01. Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985. united states, boston, massachusetts, nitrate negatives
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Author
- Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985
- Publisher
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Published, as stated
- 1938-01-01
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 312764 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
f61438ccf3f3f1da7cd6268f4709d13b67935da8b0962b10c636c4936413b587
Questions this record answers
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Who wrote Boston, Massachusetts, and who published it?
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985 wrote it. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print published it, 1938-01-01.
Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.
Does the archive hold Boston, Massachusetts 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 f61438ccf3f3f1da7cd6268f4709d13b67935da8b0962b10c636c4936413b587. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.
Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.
What does the archive hold for Boston, Massachusetts, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston, Massachusetts from Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.
Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.
Related records
- depicts — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:boston-massachusetts-3
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-massachusetts-3
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-massachusetts-3.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Library of Congress digital collections — source of record
- License
- United States Government Work — public domain (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2017723228/
- Attribution
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Rights as stated
- No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Transform ladder
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| 1 | gate | read this ITEM's own rights advisory and refused every conditional form, including advisories that determine a class of item rather than this one | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | fetch | retrieved the item record from the Library of Congress JSON API and the largest still image it advertises | 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 | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 5 | link | tied the record to the places this archive already holds that the item's own subjects name | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |