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Massachusetts, 1953
Massachusetts, 1953, September 21, 1955 — Generals, Civil defense. Held by National Archives at Boston, Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization. Title from accompanying material. Text from item: Governor Herter pins stars on two generals. The Commonwealth's chief executive is shown above (center) pinning the two stars of a Major General on his Chief Military Aide, Robert G.…
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- National Archives at Boston
- Published
- 1955-09-21
- Published, as stated
- September 21, 1955
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 140083 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
587392d40b1102ef13a01695701bc3ac35f57213ed856dac609f7b68dcb84017
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Who wrote Massachusetts, 1953, and who published it?
National Archives at Boston published it, 1955-09-21.
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Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Related records
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Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:massachusetts-1953-5
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/massachusetts-1953-5
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/massachusetts-1953-5.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:h128rb674
- Attribution
- National Archives at Boston
- Rights as stated
- No Copyright - United States — Unrestricted
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| 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 |