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Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 1900
Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 1900, December 1900 — waterworks, offices (work spaces). Held by Massachusetts Archives, Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Framed photo enlargements, including Fells Reservoir (2); Sudbury Dam
Document
- Type
- photograph
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Archives
- Published, as stated
- December 1900
- Language
- en
- Media type
image/jpeg- Size
- 132422 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
2b26bd336edb4777a9bec2344341a36e044a1b2bdb3bd60c75a45c0c394fcca4
Questions this record answers
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Who wrote Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 1900, and who published it?
Massachusetts Archives published it, December 1900.
Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No Copyright - United States.
Does the archive hold Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 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 2b26bd336edb4777a9bec2344341a36e044a1b2bdb3bd60c75a45c0c394fcca4. 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 Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 1900, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Metropolitan Water Works Miscellaneous, Chairman Henry H. Sprague's Office, view in opposite direction, Boston, Mass., Dec. 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 — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:metropolitan-water-works-miscellaneous-chairman-henry-h-sprague-s-office-view-in-opposite-direction
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/metropolitan-water-works-miscellaneous-chairman-henry-h-sprague-s-office-view-in-opposite-direction
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/metropolitan-water-works-miscellaneous-chairman-henry-h-sprague-s-office-view-in-opposite-direction.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:3484zp03j
- 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 |