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    "label": "Blue Hills Reservation",
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    "title": "Blue Hills Reservation",
    "description": "Charles Eliot was instrumental in the acquisition of the Blue Hills Reservation by the Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893. He believed that the reservation’s “wildness” offered a counterpoint to Boston’s intentionally manicured urban parks, such as the Public Garden. When the fledgling Metropolitan Park Commission acquired the Blue Hills and three other reservations, Park Commissioner Herbert S. Carruth declared, “There will be no attempt made to beautify them. We shall not even own a lawn mower.” This map, created by the Park Commission in 1905, uses hachures to show the “bold” elevation changes that Eliot celebrated for their panoramic views.",
    "date": "[\"1905\"]",
    "year": 1905,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:js956j402",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_005309",
    "creators": [
        "Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Parks--Massachusetts--Milton--Maps",
        "Blue Hills (Mass.)--Maps",
        "Blue Hills Reservation (Mass.)--Maps"
    ],
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        "Blue Hills Reservation",
        "Massachusetts",
        "Milton",
        "Norfolk (county)",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
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    "typeOfResource": [
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Massachusetts",
    "county": "Norfolk",
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    "pubPlace": "Boston",
    "publisher": "C.J. Peters & Son Co."
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        "Relief shown by hachures."
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