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    "label": "[Map of the great Venango oil basin]",
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    "title": "[Map of the great Venango oil basin]",
    "description": "Although West Virginia is the second state in the country for coal production, crude oil has also been drilled for since the mid-19th century. This late 19th-century hand-drawn map illustrates Pennsylvania's Venango County oil basin, and shows locations of wells throughout three counties in the northwestern part of the state.",
    "date": "[\"[1880?–1889?]\"]",
    "year": 1880,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:w9505s28b",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_006118",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
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    "subjects": [
        "Venango (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript"
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        "North and Central America",
        "Pennsylvania",
        "United States",
        "Venango",
        "Venango (county)"
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Pennsylvania",
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        "Title provided by cataloger.",
        "Shows the basin spanning the towns of Venango, Warren and Crawford."
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