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    "label": "Saginaw Bay and part of Lake Huron",
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    "title": "Saginaw Bay and part of Lake Huron",
    "description": "Depths shown by bathymetric tints and soundings.",
    "date": "[\"1892\"]",
    "year": 1892,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:ks65nr05p",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "identifierLocal": "06_01_015602",
    "creators": [
        "U.S. Lake Survey",
        "Macomb, J. N. (John N.), 1810 or 1811-1889",
        "Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872",
        "Mueller, J. U. (John U.)",
        "Dougal, William H., 1822-1895",
        "United States. Topographical Bureau"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Saginaw Bay (Mich.)--Maps",
        "Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--Michigan--Saginaw Bay",
        "Nautical charts--Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)"
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        "Michigan",
        "North and Central America",
        "Saginaw",
        "United States"
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    "publisher": "Survey of the Lakes"
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        "Depths shown by bathymetric tints and soundings.",
        "\"Aids to navigation corrected to January 1, 1892.\"",
        "Stamped in purple at bottom: Aids to navigation corrected to Jan 1 1892.",
        "Includes sailing directions, magnetic observations chart, water table chart and note.",
        "Also shows specific points of interest and platted land around the shore.",
        "Two notes issued 1894 tipped-on in upper left corner: Saginaw Bay, Mich. -- To be attached to chart of Lake Huron, and to chart of Saginaw Bay.",
        "\"Made in obedience to acts of Congress and under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers of the War Department.\""
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