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    "label": "Map of the city of Boston and its environs",
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    "title": "Map of the city of Boston and its environs",
    "description": "Although no battles were fought in Boston, many people in the greater Boston area were heavily involved in war-related activities. The accompanying map portrays Boston and its neighboring communities at the end of the war. With a population of approximately 180,000, Boston proper was the largest city in New England, and the fifth largest in the United States.",
    "date": "[\"1866\"]",
    "year": 1866,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82m0362",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_000890",
    "creators": [
        "Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
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        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps"
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        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
        "United States"
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    "pubPlace": "New York",
    "publisher": "Baker & Tilden"
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    "extent": "1 map : col. ; 157 x 158 cm., sheets 52 x 79 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Cocentric rings show distance from Boston.",
        "\"Longitude from State House.\"",
        "\"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Baker & Tilden, in the clerks office of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.\""
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