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    "title": "This plan of the city of Philadelphia and it's [sic] environs, (shewing the improved parts,) is dedicated to the mayor, aldermen and citizens thereof",
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        "Next to title, engraving: The Seal of the City of Philadelphia.",
        "At left margin, printed inscription, dated Sept. 5, 1796, from Matthew Clarkson, Mayor of Philadelphia.",
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