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Thomas Moorhead, a ship-wreck'd mariner : who subsisted fifty-one days on the bodies of his comrades. Taken off the wreck by the ship Monticello, and arrived at New-York, the beginning of May, 1809.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 18115. Connect to full text. Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18115.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moorhead, Thomas.
- Survival.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Survival at sea.
- Airplane crash survival.
- Shipwrecks--Poetry.
- Shipwrecks.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1809.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 28 x 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1809?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Prose account, followed by a Poem on the ship wreck; first lines: While reading o'er the dismal fate of Moorhead, and his crew.
- American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 97, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.
- Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.5 x 17.3 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18115).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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