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    "label": "Brasilia",
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    "id": "st74cx02r",
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    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Brasilia",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"[1650]\"]",
    "year": 1650,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:st74cx02r",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007860",
    "creators": [
        "Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Brazil--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Brazil",
        "South America"
    ],
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        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
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    "country": "Brazil",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "Amsterdam",
    "publisher": "Chez I. Blaeu"
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    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
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    "extent": "1 map : hand col. ; 37 x 48 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Oriented with north to the right.",
        "Shows the eastern portion of Brazil.",
        "Includes an ornamental cartouche, and illustrations of ships and putti.",
        "\"Generis nobilitate, armorium et litterarum scientia prestantmo. Heroi Christoph ab Artischau Arciszewski, nuper in Brasilia per triennium tribuno militum Prudentiss. Fortiss. Feliciss. tabulam hanc prono cultu D.D.D. Johannes Blaeu.\"",
        "Appears in Willem Janszoon Blaeu's Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas. Amsterdam: Chez I. Bleau, 1650.",
        "Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.",
        "Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/letheatredumonde00blae"
    ],
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