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Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900

Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900, September 14, 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
1900-09-14
Published, as stated
September 14, 1900
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
190746 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
3d8491ea57887ce74449ae1856e27762c451ce43d0ab238d7289b0f510718555

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Who wrote Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900, and who published it?

Massachusetts Archives published it, 1900-09-14.

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, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 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 3d8491ea57887ce74449ae1856e27762c451ce43d0ab238d7289b0f510718555. 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, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 1900, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, pipe-laying scow, rear part, Chelsea Creek; Chelsea; East Boston, Mass., Sep. 14, 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.

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-rear-part-chelsea-creek-chelsea
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-rear-part-chelsea-creek-chelsea
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/distribution-department-low-service-pipe-lines-pipe-laying-scow-rear-part-chelsea-creek-chelsea.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:2v23wg57x
Attribution
Massachusetts Archives
Rights as stated
No Copyright - United States — No known copyright restrictions.

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