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    "label": "Map of the metropolitan district of Boston, Massachusetts",
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    "title": "Map of the metropolitan district of Boston, Massachusetts",
    "description": "This 1893 map was included in Charles Eliot's report to the newly formed Metropolitan Park Commission (the forerunner of the DCR). The Commission was dedicated to preserving green spaces within a ten-mile radius of Boston. Due to a surging immigrant population and chaotic development in the late 19th Century, open space was disappearing at an alarming rate. As the Commission's first landscape architect, Eliot declared \" …crowded populations, if they would live in health and happiness, must have space for air, for light, for exercise, for rest, and for the enjoyment of that peaceful beauty of nature …\" This topographic map illustrates the open spaces he hoped to protect.",
    "date": "[\"1893\"]",
    "year": 1893,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:wd376704k",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_003031",
    "creators": [
        "Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission"
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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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    "subjects": [
        "Recreation areas--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Open spaces--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps",
        "Massachusetts--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
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        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
        "United States"
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    "pubPlace": "Boston, Mass",
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    "extent": "1 map : col. ; 59 x 65 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by contours.",
        "\"Contour interval 20 feet.\"",
        "From: House No. 150, Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, January, 1893.",
        "\"Dated January 2d 1893.\""
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