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Source Description
Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
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Document identity
localId
bv73cd39s
label
City Hall, Boston, Mass.
core
obj
dtoType
photograph
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
bv73cd39s
contentType
photograph
stage
normalized
title
City Hall, Boston, Mass.
description
Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
date
["[ca. 1862–1865]"]
year
1862
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
identifierLocal
08_02_003674
creators
Fehmer, Carl, 1838-1917
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Boston Pictorial Archive
subjects
City & town halls
Buildings
Old City Hall (Boston, Mass.)
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Old City Hall
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Prints
genreSpecific
Lithographs
typeOfResource
Still image
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
37720k33n
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 print : lithograph ; 20 x 26 in.
notes
Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
Image caption: Commenced in 1862. Joseph M. Wightman, Mayor. Committee on public buildings - Francis Richards, chairman, Samuel R. Spinney, Joseph F. Paul, Daniel Davies, John C. Tucker, John W. Leighton, George W. Spra[?]. Completed in 1865. Frederick W. Lincoln Jr. Mayor. Committee on public buildings - Daniel Davies, chairman, L. Miles Standish, George W. Sprague, Nathaniel Adams, [illegible].
Additional information on item: City Hall, Boston, Mass. Built 1862-65, G. J. F. Bryant & Arthur Gilman, arch.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
bv73cd39s
type
photograph
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b47a0a16e8d91106