1814 broadside printing of the Defense of Fort McHenry, a poem that later became the national anthem of the United States
Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
1814
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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011211050101/http://web8.si.edu/nmah/htdocs/ssb-old/6_thestory/6b_osay/main6b1c_l.html">This is the first known printing of Key's poem. Called a broadside, it was probably printed in Baltimore on Sept. 17, 1814. It once belonged to Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who was married to Key's wife's sister. National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution), Courtesy Maryland Historical Society</a>"