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    "label": "Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers",
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    "title": "Mappemonde projetée sur l'horizon d'Angers",
    "description": "Women in Cartography: This student map depicts the world in a double-hemisphere, centering the left half on Angers, France, and the right on its antipode, or opposite point on earth. Drawn by a French girl in 1839, this thoughtfully conceived map includes two colored views and extensive calligraphy in a fine hand. The unusual elliptical design places the northern and southern borders meshing with the two hemispheres for a unique overall presentation of the world, most likely based on a similar map from an early 19th-century French world atlas.",
    "date": "[\"1839\"]",
    "year": 1839,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3f463199m",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "French",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014374",
    "creators": [
        "Babin, Céleste"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "World maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "World"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
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    "extent": "1 manuscript map : hand colored ; 2 hemispheres each 33 cm in diameter, on sheet 61 x 82 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Manuscript map by a schoolgirl attending the institution of Madamoiselle Le Bailleul in Angers. Double hemisphere map depicts a northern hemisphere centered on Angers and a southern hemisphere centered on Angers' antipode. Includes a colored view of Beaupréau.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Inset: Vue de Beaupreau.",
        "\"Exposition du 2 Septembre 1839.\"",
        "\"Institution de Melle. Le Bailleul.\""
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