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Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900
Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900, August 31, 1900 — waterworks, pipes (conduits), construction sites. Held by Massachusetts Archives, Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Print in album Photographs MWW Distribution Department, Vol. 6.
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Archives
- Published
- 1900-08-31
- Published, as stated
- August 31, 1900
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 163918 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
f2212ba82986242a9833b1f9fdafaf2f62f59677752c5321c2d11dbf5066c867
Questions this record answers
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Who wrote Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900, and who published it?
Massachusetts Archives published it, 1900-08-31.
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Does the archive hold Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900 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 f2212ba82986242a9833b1f9fdafaf2f62f59677752c5321c2d11dbf5066c867. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
What does the archive hold for Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1900 from Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, 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 Massachusetts Archives.
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Related records
- depicts — Chelsea River
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-chelsea-creek-chelsea-east-boston
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-chelsea-creek-chelsea-east-boston
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-chelsea-creek-chelsea-east-boston.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online — source of record
- License
- No Copyright - United States (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- commonwealth:2v23wf88q
- Attribution
- Massachusetts Archives
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.
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| 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 |