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    "label": "Chart of the entrance of Hudson's River, from Sandy Hook to New York, with the banks, depths of water, sailing-marks, & ca",
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    "title": "Chart of the entrance of Hudson's River, from Sandy Hook to New York, with the banks, depths of water, sailing-marks, & ca",
    "description": "Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown by hachures.",
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007248",
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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        "Nautical charts--Hudson River Estuary (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800",
        "Nautical charts--Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800",
        "Nautical charts--Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800",
        "New York Region--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "North and Central America",
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        "Upper Bay"
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        "Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Appears in The North-American pilot for New England, New York, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia. 1777.",
        "\"Published as the Act directs ...\"",
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