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Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts

Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980-01-01. Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-. united states, gardens, color, massachusetts, boston, america, transparencies

Document

Type
photograph
Author
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
Publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Published, as stated
1980-01-01
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
450493 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
ef104e066e7d104802b8ee0bc15701e9c19a2b9f200c100a38afc0b28cb01101

Questions this record answers

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Who wrote Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, and who published it?

Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- wrote it. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print published it, 1980-01-01.

Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.

Does the archive hold Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts 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 ef104e066e7d104802b8ee0bc15701e9c19a2b9f200c100a38afc0b28cb01101. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.

Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.

What does the archive hold for Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts from Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Attested by: Library of Congress digital collections, retrieved 5 September 2026, under United States Government Work — public domain.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:public-garden-boston-massachusetts
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/public-garden-boston-massachusetts
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/public-garden-boston-massachusetts.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Library of Congress digital collections — source of record
License
United States Government Work — public domain (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
http://www.loc.gov/item/2011630435/
Attribution
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Rights as stated
No known restrictions on publication.

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