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    "localId": "th83s028r",
    "label": "A map of Rhode Island",
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    "id": "th83s028r",
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    "contentType": "map",
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    "title": "A map of Rhode Island",
    "description": "Manuscript map in ink and watercolor, drawn by a schoolgirl.",
    "date": "[\"1835\"]",
    "year": 1835,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:th83s028r",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_019162",
    "creators": [
        "Durfee, Lucy"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Rhode Island--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North and Central America",
        "Rhode Island",
        "United States"
    ],
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        "Maps"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "typeOfResource": [
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    "country": "United States",
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    "extent": "1 manuscript map : hand colored ; 48 x 36 cm",
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        "Manuscript map in ink and watercolor, drawn by a schoolgirl.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Prime meridians: [Washington] and [Greenwich].",
        "Cartographer is possibly Lucy Durfee (Borden) of Rhode Island, 1821-1890, daughter of politician and jurist Job Durfee.",
        "Possibly based on Anthony Finley's map of Rhode Island."
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