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    "label": "Sketch of Charleston Harbor",
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    "title": "Sketch of Charleston Harbor",
    "description": "Shows fortifications, street pattern of Charleston and vegetation.",
    "date": "[\"[1861]\"]",
    "year": 1861,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:ht250353q",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014624",
    "creators": [
        "Williams, W. A., active 19th century",
        "Redding & Co."
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Fortification--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Maps",
        "Charleston Harbor (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Charleston (county)",
        "Charleston Harbor",
        "North and Central America",
        "South Carolina",
        "United States"
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    "state": "South Carolina",
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    "notes": [
        "Shows fortifications, street pattern of Charleston and vegetation.",
        "Depths shown by soundings.",
        "Insets: Castle Pinckney -- Fort Sumpter [sic] -- Fort Moultrie.",
        "Compare LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 385 for similar printing distributed by L. Prang & Co.",
        "Variation of LC copy; some military information not included."
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