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    "title": "Financial irrigation of the United States by funds appropriated for emergency use under the New Deal",
    "description": "\"This is one of two allegorical maps illustrating articles on New Deal spending and taxes that appeared in Fortune Magazine in consecutive months. This map, published in December 1934, shows the 'Financial Irrigation of the United States' ... Money from taxes and the sale of government securities at the top flows into the U.S. Treasury and 'reservoirs' for the Public Works Administration and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and from there through a series of overlapping pipes to dozens of new government agencies. Some agencies are 'irrigated' by all three sources, others by only one or two. The explanation of the map emphasizes that there is no specific limit to the amount by which the funds [for the PWA and RFC] could be increased.\"--P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography.",
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    "year": 1934,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_018475",
    "creators": [
        "Appleton, LeRoy H."
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        "United States--Politics and government--1933-1945--Maps",
        "United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945--Maps",
        "United States--Politics and government--1933-1945",
        "United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945",
        "New Deal, 1933-1939--Maps",
        "Government spending policy--United States--20th century--Maps",
        "Tax and expenditure limitations--United States--20th century--Maps"
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    "extent": "1 map : color ; 27 x 41 cm, on sheet 36 x 57 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Allegorical map depicting the distribution of funds through an irrigation system from the U.S. Treasury to all government agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.",
        "Side panel text describes the administration's spending and includes an alphabetical list of departments receiving New Deal funds.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Includes text and list of acronyms and names of corresponding government agencies receiving funds.",
        "Text regarding the federal budget, the New Deal, and the growth of national debt on verso.",
        "Pages 65-68 from December 1934 issue of Fortune magazine."
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