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    "title": "Preliminary chart, lower reach of Saginaw River and bar in front, (Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron)",
    "description": "Depths shown by soundings and isolines.",
    "date": "[\"[1893]\"]",
    "year": 1893,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:5t34xz11n",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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        "U.S. Lake Survey",
        "Macomb, J. N. (John N.), 1810 or 1811-1889",
        "Hearding, W. H. (William Hellins)",
        "Forster, John Harris, 1822-1894",
        "Beghein, J. L.",
        "P.S. Duval & Son"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Saginaw River (Mich.)--Maps",
        "Bay City (Mich.)--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--Michigan--Saginaw River",
        "Mills and mill-work--Michigan--Bay City--Maps"
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        "Michigan",
        "North and Central America",
        "Saginaw",
        "United States"
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        "Depths shown by soundings and isolines.",
        "Oriented with north to the right.",
        "Shows railroads, mills and other points of interest along the bay including composition of river bottom.",
        "Includes note.",
        "At head of title: seal with \"United States Lake Survey 1867.\"",
        "\"Additions and corrections to June 1st. 1893.\"",
        "Stamped in lower margin: Aids to navigation corrected from information received to Jun 1 1893.",
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