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    "title": "Mobile Bay, Alabama",
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    "year": 1900,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_018419",
    "creators": [
        "United States. Commission on Navy-Yards",
        "United States Coast Survey",
        "United States. Navy Department"
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    "collections": [
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        "Mobile Bay (Ala.)--Maps",
        "Navigation--Alabama--Mobile Bay",
        "Shipyards--Alabama--Mobile Bay--Planning"
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        "Depths shown by soundings and gradients.",
        "Prime meridians: Fort Morgan and Greenwich.",
        "Shows potential sites for a navy yard near Mobile.",
        "Includes tables and text about navigation information.",
        "\"June 1888 dredged channel.\"",
        "\"Appendix M.\"",
        "\"Plate no. 1158.\"",
        "In lower right corner: (Mobile Bay) U.S.C. & G.S.",
        "Originally appeared in a report from the Navy Yard Site Commission issued approximately 1889. Detached from a report from the Navy Department issued approximately 1900."
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