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    "label": "Map of the oil district of West Virginia",
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    "title": "Map of the oil district of West Virginia",
    "description": "Although West Virginia is the second state in the country for coal production, crude oil has also been drilled for since the mid-19th century. This map, produced during the Civil War, shows the \"oil district\" of West Virginia, and includes locations of oil and gas wells, as well as coal seams. The map has a note stating \"first oil found 1790,\" in a location just north of present-day Elizabeth in Wirt County.",
    "date": "[\"1864\"]",
    "year": 1864,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:4m90f600s",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_011015",
    "creators": [
        "Stout, Peter F."
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Oil fields--West Virginia--Maps",
        "West Virginia--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North and Central America",
        "United States",
        "West Virginia"
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    "genreBasic": [
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    "typeOfResource": [
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "West Virginia",
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    "pubPlace": "Philadelphia",
    "publisher": "R.L. Barnes"
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    "extent": "1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 44 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Covers Wood, Pleasants, Ritchie, and Wirt counties.",
        "In upper left: No. 6.",
        "\"This map is no. 6 of a series of maps, showing the various oil localities of West Virginia.\"",
        "\"Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1864 by R.L. Barnes in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Penna.\""
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