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    "localId": "cj82kj811",
    "label": "Post route map of the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri with adjacent parts of Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Arkansas showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of October 1891",
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    "title": "Post route map of the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri with adjacent parts of Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Arkansas showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of October 1891",
    "description": "Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.",
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    "year": 1891,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82kj811",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_009004",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "Counties--Illinois--Maps",
        "Counties--Iowa--Maps",
        "Counties--Missouri--Maps",
        "Postal service--Illinois--Maps",
        "Postal service--Iowa--Maps",
        "Postal service--Missouri--Maps",
        "Railroads--Illinois--Maps",
        "Railroads--Iowa--Maps",
        "Railroads--Missouri--Maps",
        "Illinois--Maps",
        "Iowa--Maps",
        "Missouri--Maps"
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        "Iowa",
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        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
    ],
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    "notes": [
        "Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.",
        "Insets: Environs of Des Moines -- Environs of Chicago -- Counties of Jackson, Mo. and Wyandotte, Kan. -- Environs of St. Louis.",
        "\"The service on this diagram brought up to date of October 1st. 1891.\""
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