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Portrait of the class of 1900

Portrait of the class of 1900, 1900 — Students. Held by Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Campus Life. Campus: Newbury/Exeter Streets Names: Anthony Willis, E.M.P.(?) Bartlett, Constance Blake, Gertrude Sullivan, Cleaves, Clara Pond, Jane Stratton, Harlowe, Carrie Holway, Hutchins, Marianna Mayers, Louis Monte, Edith Nichols, Ethel Pope, Edith Pratt, Edith Rankin, Jennie Scott, George Sperry, Stone Title…

Document

Type
photograph
Publisher
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Published, as stated
1900
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
152393 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
bc6e01f774d19cbd7d846bcf97b3293e7d214adb02467cd6a05654b483597999

Questions this record answers

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Who wrote Portrait of the class of 1900, and who published it?

Massachusetts College of Art and Design published it, 1900.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Does the archive hold Portrait of the class of 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 bc6e01f774d19cbd7d846bcf97b3293e7d214adb02467cd6a05654b483597999. 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 known copyright restrictions.

What does the archive hold for Portrait of the class of 1900, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Portrait of the class of 1900 from Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:portrait-of-the-class-of-1900
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/portrait-of-the-class-of-1900
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/portrait-of-the-class-of-1900.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online — source of record
License
No known copyright restrictions (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
commonwealth:7366b721t
Attribution
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Rights as stated
No known copyright restrictions

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4stagewrote the bytes to the staging directory under their content address, for preservation into the object store at that same addressarchive-ingest 0.1.0
5linktied the record to the places this archive already holds that the item's own geographic subjects name; no entity was created to receive a linkarchive-ingest 0.1.0