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    "title": "Dinsmore's new railroad map of the United States and the Canadas, showing all the railroads completed and in progress, carefully compiled from official sources, for Dinsmore's railroad guide",
    "description": "Railroad situation at Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa, Iowa, and St. Joseph, Missouri, not earlier than September 1859; at Ottumwa, not later than July 1, 1865. Cf. R.E. Riegel. Story of the Western railroads; R.C. Overton, History of the Burlington lines. Cotton gin advertised on verso of map patented June and September 1860.",
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_009201",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
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        "Railroads--Canada--Maps",
        "Railroads--United States--Maps",
        "Railroads--Massachusetts--Maps",
        "Canada--Maps",
        "United States--Maps"
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        "Railroad situation at Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa, Iowa, and St. Joseph, Missouri, not earlier than September 1859; at Ottumwa, not later than July 1, 1865. Cf. R.E. Riegel. Story of the Western railroads; R.C. Overton, History of the Burlington lines. Cotton gin advertised on verso of map patented June and September 1860.",
        "Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.",
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "\"The numbers upon the map refer to corresponding numbers in the Index to Railroads\" in the Guide.",
        "Inset: Eastern part of Massachusetts (enlarged scale).",
        "Fisk & Russell, engravers.",
        "Advertisements on verso."
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