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    "title": "Thunder Bay, Lake Huron",
    "description": "Also shows some points of interest and composition of river bottom.",
    "date": "[\"[1891]\"]",
    "year": 1891,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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        "Potter, J. A.",
        "Turnbull, C. N.",
        "Carr, James",
        "Smith, W. P.",
        "Lamson, George W.",
        "Lamson, A.",
        "Henry, D. Farrand (Daniel Farrand), 1833-1907",
        "Barney, Joshua, 1799 or 1800-1867",
        "United States. Topographical Bureau",
        "Dougal, William H., 1822-1895",
        "Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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        "Nautical charts--Michigan--Thunder Bay",
        "Nautical charts--Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)",
        "Thunder Bay (Mich.)--Maps",
        "Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)--Navigation--Maps"
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        "Also shows some points of interest and composition of river bottom.",
        "Depth shown by soundings and gradient tints.",
        "\"Made in obedience to acts of Congress and under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers of the War Department.\"",
        "\"Aids to navigation corrected to January 1, 1880.\"",
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