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    "label": "Texas and Pacific Rail Way",
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    "title": "Texas and Pacific Rail Way",
    "description": "America Transformed: After the Civil War, there was strong interest in constructing a new transcontinental route across the southwestern United States. In 1871, Congress chartered the Texas and Pacific Railway to build a railroad from eastern Texas to San Diego. This map highlights the proposed route to promote land sales and encourage emigration to Texas' rich agricultural lands. When this map was published, the rail line had been completed to Dallas and Fort Worth. Three central illustrations depict the growth of this area. The railroad as proposed never reached San Diego but eventually connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad just east of El Paso.",
    "date": "[\"1876\"]",
    "year": 1876,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_011085",
    "creators": [
        "Texas & Pacific Railway"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Texas & Pacific Railway",
        "Counties--Texas--Maps",
        "Railroads--Texas--Maps",
        "Railroads--Oklahoma--Maps",
        "Railroads--United States--Maps",
        "Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Maps",
        "Indian reservations--Oklahoma--Maps",
        "Texas--Maps",
        "Indian Territory--Maps",
        "Oklahoma--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North and Central America",
        "Oklahoma",
        "Texas",
        "United States"
    ],
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    "typeOfResource": [
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Oklahoma",
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    "pubPlace": "St. Louis",
    "publisher": "Texas & Pacific Railway Company"
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    "extent": "2 maps on 1 sheet : col. ; 34 x 66 cm. and 46 x 51 cm., on sheet 105 x 72 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Shows counties, cities, towns, military posts, and existing and proposed railroads in Texas; railroads, Indian tribes, and Indian reservations in the Indian Territory.",
        "\"Compiled from actual surveys, and containing all changes in lines of counties up to Sept. 1st, 1876.\"",
        "Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.",
        "Includes text and 7 ill."
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