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    "label": "[Mid]dleton's [pione]er map of the [w]orld, [as a?] plane and immoveable",
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    "title": "[Mid]dleton's [pione]er map of the [w]orld, [as a?] plane and immoveable",
    "description": "Part of title missing; title approximated.",
    "date": "[\"[ca. 1878]\"]",
    "year": 1878,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_008378",
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
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        "Part of title missing; title approximated.",
        "Flat earth map.",
        "Shows the sun's path and country outlines.",
        "Includes notes about the map; an entreaty for Great Britain to declare war on Russia, which recently took Kars and Batum in the Russo-Turkish War; and verses the author claims to have been written for her in 1841 when she was an infant on a ship from Falmouth to Barbadoes. Verses are the first and last stanzas of the poem \"On a sleeping boy\" by unknown author."
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