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    "label": "Map of the Back Bay Fens showing the public ways bordering and crossing them and the neighboring newly laid out parts of Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Audubon Road, by which will be made available a circuit drive of the district, tree-lined throughout and passing above railroads",
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    "title": "Map of the Back Bay Fens showing the public ways bordering and crossing them and the neighboring newly laid out parts of Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Audubon Road, by which will be made available a circuit drive of the district, tree-lined throughout and passing above railroads",
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