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    "localId": "99485",
    "label": "Taffeta Fragment",
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    "id": "99485",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Taffeta Fragment",
    "date": "c. 1730",
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 5 (1919): 97-98.",
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