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    "label": "Boston Harbor, Massachusetts",
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    "title": "Boston Harbor, Massachusetts",
    "description": "The third edition of the Coast Survey's Boston Harbor chart was published in 1878. In general appearance, it resembled the first two editions. However, the number of landscape views in the third edition,has been reduced to three. Although the navigation aids were updated, the topographical information was not. For example, the filling of Back Bay, which would have been almost completed by this time, has not progressed any further than depicted on earlier editions. This copy of the chart was hand colored and bears several additional navigational notations, apparently made in 1895 by a pilot and previous owner, William S. Brown.",
    "date": "[\"1878\"]",
    "year": 1878,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3f463441t",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_001157",
    "creators": [
        "United States Coast Survey",
        "Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Harbor",
        "Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Bay",
        "Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Navigation",
        "Boston Bay (Mass.)--Navigation"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
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        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
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    "country": "United States",
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    "pubPlace": "[Washington, D.C.]",
    "publisher": "U.S. Coast Survey Office"
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    "extent": "1 map : hand col. ; 71 x 88 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Shows buoys with red and black ink.",
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Depths shown by soundings and shading.",
        "Oriented with north towards the upper left.",
        "In upper right margin: Electrotype copy no. 12 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S.",
        "Prime meridian: Massachusetts State House.",
        "Includes sailing directions, tables of tides, lighthouses, and bottom types, and 3 coastal views.",
        "In upper left margin: No. 337.",
        "Plate no. 1184."
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