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On the Dark Day May 19th 1780.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1830?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26 x 22 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 20953. ^A575643
General noteVerse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.
General noteThe darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57.
General noteIncluded in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts. Imprint dates suggested by typography.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 19.4 x 14.1 cm.
References Bristol B5153
References Shipton & Mooney 43860
References Shaw & Shoemaker 20953
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2270
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 20953).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1810.

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