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    "title": "Map of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania",
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    "identifierLocal": "06_01_010939",
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        "Landowners--Pennsylvania--Cumberland County--Maps",
        "Landowners--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--Maps",
        "Real property--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--Maps",
        "Real property--Pennsylvania--Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County)--Maps",
        "Real property--Pennsylvania--Newville (Cumberland County)--Maps",
        "Real property--Pennsylvania--Shippensburg--Maps",
        "Cumberland County (Pa.)--Maps",
        "Carlisle (Pa.)--Maps",
        "Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County, Pa.)--Maps",
        "Newville (Cumberland County, Pa.)--Maps",
        "Shippensburg (Pa.)--Maps"
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        "General-content county map showing townships, rural buildings, and householders' names; the four borough insets show real-property tracts (lots), lot numbers (Carlisle inset only), and landowners' names.",
        "Hand colored to emphasize township/borough boundaries and territories.",
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        "\"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1858 by H.F. Bridgens in the ... Eastern District of the State of Pennsylvania.\"",
        "Includes notes, distance table, tabular post-office directory, county statistical table, index of Carlisle borough landowners' names, and illustration of county courthouse.",
        "Borough insets: Plan of Newville -- Plan of Shippensburg -- Plan of the Borough of Mechanicsburg / surveyed by H.F. Bridgens -- Plan of Carlisle / by H.F. Bridgens."
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