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    "title": "Skeleton map showing the rail roads completed and in progress in the United States and their connection as proposed with the harbor of Pensacola",
    "description": "Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. [From published bibliography].",
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