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The Launch : a federal song.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 48501 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48501.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merrimack (Ship).
- United States--History--1797-1801.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- National songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cut)
- Place of Publication:
- [Newburyport, Mass.?] : [publisher not identified], [1798?]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Song in twelve stanzas; first line: Ye sons of Columbia, your ardour display.
- Commemorating the brig Merrimack, built at Newburyport, Mass., and launched on October 12, 1798. Cf. The Newburyport herald for October 12, 1798; also, Chapelle, Howard I. The history of the American sailing navy (New York, 1949), pages 158.
- Text in two columns; printed area, including relief cut of a ship at head, measures 38.3 x 24.7 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 48501).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B10380
- Shipton and Mooney 48501
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3221
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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