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    "label": "South end of Lake Huron and head of the St. Clair River",
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    "title": "South end of Lake Huron and head of the St. Clair River",
    "description": "Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and isolines.",
    "date": "[\"[1893]\"]",
    "year": 1893,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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        "Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872",
        "Barney, Joshua, 1799 or 1800-1867",
        "Dougal, William H., 1822-1895",
        "United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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    "subjects": [
        "Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)--Maps",
        "Saint Clair River (Mich. and Ont.)--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)",
        "Nautical charts--Saint Clair River (Mich. and Ont.)"
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        "North and Central America",
        "Saint Clair River"
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        "Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and isolines.",
        "At head of title: Survey of the northern and north western lakes, made in obedience to acts of Congress and under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers of the War Department.",
        "Inset: Head of St. Clair River showing the anchorage ground.",
        "Includes: Water table -- Sailing directions -- Dangers to be avoided, American coast -- Canadian coast -- Harbors, anchorages & c -- Note -- Magnetic declinations -- Note.",
        "Also shows railroads and other points of interest along the shoreline.",
        "\"Aids to navigation corrected to November 1, 1886.\"",
        "Stamped in lower margin: Aids to navigation corrected from information received to Sep 29 1893.",
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