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    "title": "The north coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from St. Marks to Galveston",
    "description": "Boston Public Library has only east sheet showing St. Marks to New Orleans. Lacking west sheet showing New Orleans to Galveston.",
    "date": "[\"1851\",\"(c) 1842\"]",
    "year": 1842,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
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    "creators": [
        "Copley, Charles",
        "Powell, Levin M., 1800-1885",
        "Simmes, Lieut.",
        "Coffin, J. H. C. (John Huntington Crane), 1815-1890",
        "Kearney, James, -1862",
        "E. & G.W. Blunt (Firm)"
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    "collections": [
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        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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    "subjects": [
        "Mexico, Gulf of--Maps",
        "Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Maps",
        "Gulf States--Maps",
        "Nautical charts--Mexico, Gulf of"
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        "Florida",
        "Louisiana",
        "Mexico, Gulf of",
        "Mississippi",
        "North and Central America",
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        "United States"
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        "Boston Public Library has only east sheet showing St. Marks to New Orleans. Lacking west sheet showing New Orleans to Galveston.",
        "Depths shown by soundings and gradient tints.",
        "Shows cities, towns, military posts, islands and coastal formations along the Gulf of Mexico from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Appalachee Bay.",
        "Includes notes and 3 insets.",
        "Insets: Bar & entrance of Mobile Bay, surveyed under the direction of Major J. Kearney; Topogl. Engr. -- Preliminary sketch of Galveston Bar Harbour / U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Superintendent -- Continuation of the coast, on a reduced scale.",
        "\"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by E. & G.W. Blunt, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District New York.\"",
        "\"Additions to 1851, including the surveys of Comr. Powell, Lt. Simmes, & Profr. Coffin, U.S. Navy.\""
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