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Boston, Massachusetts, aerial view of downtown
Boston, Massachusetts, aerial view of downtown, 1964-01-01. Trikosko, Marion S. film negatives, massachusetts, boston, aerial photographs, skyscrapers
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Author
- Trikosko, Marion S.
- Publisher
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Published, as stated
- 1964-01-01
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 359348 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
4496f0599d1af726efaa46512d48e3b8431928a468b18581b9aeeacb50918c1c
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Who wrote Boston, Massachusetts, aerial view of downtown, and who published it?
Trikosko, Marion S. wrote it. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print published it, 1964-01-01.
Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.
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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-aerial-view-of-downtown
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-massachusetts-aerial-view-of-downtown
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/boston-massachusetts-aerial-view-of-downtown.json
- Version
- 2 · last changed 12 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/2016652088/
- Attribution
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Rights as stated
- No known restrictions on publication.
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