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    "localId": "100041",
    "label": "Section of an Embroidered Frieze: Ahasuerus and Esther, The Pope Chiding the Emperor, Henry VIII treading on the Pope's Neck",
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    "title": "Section of an Embroidered Frieze: Ahasuerus and Esther, The Pope Chiding the Emperor, Henry VIII treading on the Pope's Neck",
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            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n152"
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        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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        },
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