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    "title": "Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico",
    "description": "America Transformed: Published a year after the annexation of Texas, at the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, this map depicts the northern region of Mexico (today part of the United States). It reveals a cultural landscape with both Spanish and Native settlements. Besides the Spanish settlements in southeastern Texas, there were three other clusters in this northern region – the upper Rio Grande (New Mexico), southern Arizona, and the California coast. While some Spanish settlements had been established more than a century earlier, Spanish culture was imposed on numerous Native groups already living in the area including the Pueblo, Numunu (Comanche), N’Dee (Apache), Hopitushínumu (Hopi), and Diné (Navajo).<br/><br/>America Transformed: Viewpoint: This map offers a great example of the fluidity of geography, as we can see how its meaning had shifted and would shift again. Lost in the designs of nation-states are the numerous indigenous geographies (still visible in maps like this) that remain in place and persist to this day. –Natchee Blu Barnd, Oregon State University",
    "date": "[\"1846\"]",
    "year": 1846,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "Spanish",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_011770",
    "creators": [
        "Disturnell, John, 1801-1877"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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    "subjects": [
        "Mexico--Maps",
        "Southwest, New--Maps",
        "Southwestern States--Maps"
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        "Southwest",
        "United States"
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    "pubPlace": "Nueva York",
    "publisher": "J. Disturnell"
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    "extent": "1 map : hand colored ; 75 x 94 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.",
        "Differs from other 1846 variants in having all the following details: \"scale of English miles\" instead of \"scale of miles,\" \"revised edition,\" \"Rinconada Pass\" near Monterrey, Mexico, and trail between San Antonio and Austin (source: Rittenhouse's Disturnell's treaty map. Stagecoach Press, 1965.).",
        "Prime meridian: Washington.",
        "Inset: Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y Alvarado a Méjico.\"",
        "Includes illustration, distance table and statistics table.",
        "In Spanish. Some labels in English."
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