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Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1939-01-01. United States. Public Works Administration.; United States. Committee on Architectural Surveys. hospitals, massachusetts, boston city hospital, boston, buildings, photographic prints, book illustrations

Document

Type
photograph
Author
United States. Public Works Administration.
Publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Published, as stated
1939-01-01
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
113414 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
1eb8ae6c8f34260e8db95c9b15fc7cfa2038b4158e10d4d4ef93825376135661

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Who wrote Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and who published it?

United States. Public Works Administration. wrote it. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA published it, 1939-01-01.

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

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The archive holds the bytes. Their digest, computed on the bytes as retrieved and before any transform, is SHA-256 1eb8ae6c8f34260e8db95c9b15fc7cfa2038b4158e10d4d4ef93825376135661. 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 Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Surgical operating and ward building, Boston City Hospital, 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.

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

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:surgical-operating-and-ward-building-boston-city-hospital-boston-massachusetts
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/surgical-operating-and-ward-building-boston-city-hospital-boston-massachusetts
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/surgical-operating-and-ward-building-boston-city-hospital-boston-massachusetts.json
Version
2 · last changed 12 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/2004672459/
Attribution
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Rights as stated
No known restrictions on publication.

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