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    "title": "Map of Washington Co., Pennsylvania",
    "description": "General-content county map showing rural buildings with householders' names; also shows householders' names in inset street maps.",
    "date": "[\"1861\"]",
    "year": 1861,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
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    "creators": [
        "Beers, S. N."
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    "collections": [
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    ],
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        "Landowners--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps",
        "Cities and towns--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps",
        "Villages--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Maps",
        "Business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Washington County--Directories",
        "Washington County (Pa.)--Maps",
        "Washington (Washington County, Pa.)--Maps",
        "Monongahela (Pa.)--Maps"
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        "North and Central America",
        "Pennsylvania",
        "United States",
        "Washington (county)"
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    "pubPlace": "Philadelphia",
    "publisher": "A. Pomeroy & S.W. Treat ; Assistant publishers G.G. Soule & E.H. Quick"
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    "extent": "1 map on 4 sheets : hand col. ; 147 x 153 cm.",
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        "General-content county map showing rural buildings with householders' names; also shows householders' names in inset street maps.",
        "Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries.",
        "\"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by A. Pomeroy in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylv'a.\"",
        "BPL assembled, sectioned into 4 pieces and mounted on cloth.",
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Includes distance table, business directories for most insets, and col. ill.",
        "Street-map insets: Washington [city] -- Monongahela City -- Venice -- Fredericktown -- Prosperity -- Candor -- Cross Creek -- Eldersville -- Claysville -- Hickory -- West Alexander -- Florence -- Paris -- Hillsborough -- Amity -- West Brownsville -- Ten Mile Village -- California -- Granville -- Cannonsburg -- Beallsville -- Centreville -- Millsborough -- Taylorstown -- Bentleysville -- Greenfield -- Burgettstown -- West Middletown -- Independence."
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