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    "title": "Map of the city of Providence, Rhode Island",
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    "date": "[\"1857\"]",
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_010578",
    "creators": [
        "Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888",
        "Baker, F. A."
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Real property--Rhode Island--Providence--Maps",
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        "Also shows ward boundaries and major landowners.",
        "Includes concentric circles \"drawn in half miles from the center of Weybosset Bridge.\"",
        "Ill. of buildings in upper and lower margins: New Custom House, Post Office and U.S. court rooms -- Brown University -- Providence Institution for Savings -- Butler Hospital for the Insane -- First Baptist Meeting House -- Grace Church -- General railroad passenger station -- Central Congregational Church -- Providence Athenaeum -- Central Baptist Church."
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