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    "label": "Lloyd's official map of the state of Virginia from actual surveys by order of the Executive, 1828 & 1859",
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    "title": "Lloyd's official map of the state of Virginia from actual surveys by order of the Executive, 1828 & 1859",
    "description": "Relief shown by hachures.",
    "date": "[\"1862\"]",
    "year": 1862,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_006845",
    "creators": [
        "Lloyd, James T."
    ],
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    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Virginia--Maps"
    ],
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        "Virginia"
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        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Includes geographical remarks, population, altitudes, steam boat routes, and memoranda.",
        "\"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.T. Lloyd ...\"",
        "Indicates forts, towns, mills, factories, iron works, drainage, relief by hachures, county names and boundaries, roads, and railroads.",
        "\"N.B. This is the only map used to plan campaigns in Virginia by Gen. McClellan.\"",
        "The text printed to the left of the map includes \"Deviation of the magnetic needle from the true meridian, as ascertained from observations made during the years 1823 and 1824, by H. Boye,\" \"Memoranda\" describing the sources and projection used to make the map, \"Geological remarks,\" \"Situation, extent, &c.\" and \"Table of the population.\"",
        "List of new maps that are \"Ready\" is printed to the right of the map title.",
        "Prime meridian: Washington."
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