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    "label": "An elevation, plan, and history, of the Royal Exchange of London",
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    "title": "An elevation, plan, and history, of the Royal Exchange of London",
    "description": "Plan of the Royal Exchange of London, showing goods traded and the country of origin of the traders.<br/><br/>We Are One: This print provides a large-scale depiction of the city’s Royal Exchange, the hub of commerce for the British Empire. In this building, people purchased and sold goods and spread news from around the world through conversations, books, and newspapers. The interior floor plan designates spaces for traders from the British colonies in America, Jamaica, and Barbados as well as European nations. Chesapeake tobacco planters and New England merchants depended on news and prices from the Exchange. The elevation documents the building’s Neoclassical façade, constructed after the first Exchange burned in the Great Fire of 1666.",
    "date": "[\"[1761]\"]",
    "year": 1761,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:4m90fn374",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_012249",
    "creators": [
        "Donowell, John, active 1753-1786"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Urban Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Royal Exchange (London, England)--Maps",
        "Royal Exchange (London, England)--Pictorial works",
        "Merchants--England",
        "Marketplaces--England--London--Maps",
        "England--Commerce"
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        "Europe",
        "London"
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    "pubPlace": "[London]",
    "publisher": "[publisher not identified]"
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