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    "label": "Preliminary plan for Wood Island Park, East Boston",
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    "title": "Preliminary plan for Wood Island Park, East Boston",
    "description": "Frederick Law Olmsted’s celebrated Emerald Necklace often eclipses his five smaller, isolated parks in Boston, like Wood Island Park in East Boston. Though this plan shows a simple park featuring few walks and a playing field, Olmsted would transform Wood Island into his largest neighborhood park, with forty-six acres of public beach, picnic areas, tennis courts, outdoor gymnasiums for men and women, playgrounds, and several promenades. Despite its popularity, the park was razed for the expansion of Logan Airport in the mid-20th century, setting off decades of community activism and park advocacy. ",
    "date": "[\"[1884]\"]",
    "year": 1884,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_003890",
    "creators": [
        "Boston (Mass.). Park Commissioners"
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        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "North and Central America",
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        "Oriented with north toward the upper left.",
        "Inset: Key map showing connection of park with existing street system and railroads of East Boston.",
        "Includes four sections of the grounds.",
        "\"F.L. Olmsted, landscape architect.\""
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