One of two surviving copies of the 1814 broadside printing of the Defense of Fort M<sup>c</sup>Henry, a poem that later became the national anthem of the United States.
Francis Scott Key
1814
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/images/4100_02_LG.jpg">Scan of a surviving copy from the Smithsonian</a>