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    "localId": "85492",
    "label": "America Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio",
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    "dtoType": "map",
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    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "America Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio",
    "description": "This is the second state of this famous map in which the accuracy of the shape of South America is considerably improved. It is printed from the second plate depicting North and South America which removed the bulge from the southwest coast of South America.",
    "provenance": "W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, January 23, 1979, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2011, by gift.",
    "date": "1587-1595",
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            "width": 54.4,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: H: 21 7/16 × W: 27 1/16 × D: 1 in. (54.4 × 68.7 × 2.5 cm)"
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