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    "localId": "5m60t8722",
    "label": "Topographic map of Boston, Mass.",
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    "title": "Topographic map of Boston, Mass.",
    "description": "Topographic base map of the Boston area. Second map consists of base map printed on the verso of translucent paper, with the city boundary outlined in graphic art tape and shoreline and water features outlined in manuscript pencil on the recto of the paper.",
    "date": "[\"[1980?–1989?]\"]",
    "year": 1980,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:5m60t8722",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_017833",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Urban Maps",
        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps"
    ],
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        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
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    "state": "Massachusetts",
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    "publisher": "[publisher not identified]"
}

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        "Relief shown by contours."
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