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    "title": "[Mill dam survey",
    "description": "Manuscript map in ink and water-color of the Charles River area between Cambridge and Boston, covering parts of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Brighton, Brookline, Roxbury and Dorchester. Shows marshy areas, reservoirs, aqueducts, streets, bridges, mills and wharves. Some buildings illustrated pictorially. Shows proposed bridges and boundaries, with notes in pencil.",
    "date": "[\"[1850?–1859?]\"]",
    "year": 1850,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_012299",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
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        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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    "subjects": [
        "Dams--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Fills (Earthwork)--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Land use--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "City planning--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps",
        "Cambridge (Mass.)--Maps"
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