File:Letter from Joshua Bates, London, to Mayor Benjamin Seaver, Boston, 1852 October 1 - DPLA - d4d0de3f02ce32f6f781cc4798fa9c32 (page 5).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(712 × 800 pixels, file size: 142 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Letter from Joshua Bates, London, to Mayor Benjamin Seaver, Boston, 1852 October 1   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Creator
InfoField
Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864; Seaver, Benjamin, 1795-1856
Title
Letter from Joshua Bates, London, to Mayor Benjamin Seaver, Boston, 1852 October 1
Description
A letter from Joshua Bates to Benjamin Seaver, Mayor of Boston, in which Bates offers to donate $50,000 to the Boston Public Library, the funds to be used for the purchase of books. Bates explains that his donation would be contingent on several conditions: "that the building shall be such as shall be an ornament to the city, that there shall be room for 100 or 150 persons to sit at reading tables, that it shall be perfectly free to all, with no other restrictions than such as may be necessary for the preservation of the books."
Date 1 October 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-10-01T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q894583
Source/Photographer
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain
Public domain
This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1929, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See this page for further explanation.
United States
United States
This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
Standardized rights statement
InfoField
No Copyright - United States

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:44, 12 January 2021Thumbnail for version as of 08:44, 12 January 2021712 × 800 (142 KB)DPLA bot (talk | contribs)Uploading DPLA ID d4d0de3f02ce32f6f781cc4798fa9c32

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Letter_from_Joshua_Bates,_London,_to_Mayor_Benjamin_Seaver,_Boston,_1852_October_1_-_DPLA_-_d4d0de3f02ce32f6f781cc4798fa9c32_(page_5).jpg&oldid=779253723"