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    "label": "Chart of Lake Saint Clair",
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    "title": "Chart of Lake Saint Clair",
    "description": "Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Relief shown by hachures.",
    "date": "[\"[1891]\"]",
    "year": 1891,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:xg94p4514",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_017444",
    "creators": [
        "U.S. Lake Survey",
        "Raynolds, W. F. (William Franklin), 1820-1894",
        "Comstock, C. B. (Cyrus Ballou), 1831-1910",
        "Farquhar, F. U. (Francis Ulric)",
        "Gregory, James F. (James Fingal), 1843-1897",
        "Livermore, W. R. (William Roscoe), 1843-1919",
        "Wisner, G. Y.",
        "Flint, A. R.",
        "Green, B. D.",
        "Chaffee, O. N.",
        "Mayer, J. R.",
        "Molitor, Albert",
        "Lamson, A. C.",
        "Towar, F. M.",
        "Molitor, E. (Edward)",
        "United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Saint Clair, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--Saint Clair, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)"
    ],
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        "North and Central America",
        "Saint Clair, Lake"
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        "Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Also shows lighthouses, composition of lake bottom, and shoreline land use and buildings.",
        "Includes: Authorities -- Sailing directions -- Water table -- Note.",
        "\"Made in obedience to acts of Congress and orders from Headquarters of the Corps of Engineers, War Department.\"",
        "\"Aids to navigation corrected to October 12, 1889.\"",
        "Stamped in lower margin: Aids to navigation corrected from information received to Oct 1 1891.",
        "Note issued 1894 tipped-on in upper right."
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