"The Old Kearsarge March

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Johnson, W.O.; johnson, w.o.; Geo. H. Walker & Co.
USA, MA, Chelsea
1894
paper
14 x 10-3/4 in.

Sheet music, "The Old Kearsarge March"; music by W.O. Johnson; published Chelsea, MA, by W.O. Johnson, 1894; "Dedicated to the Officers and Sailors of the wrecked U.S.S. KEARSARGE"; cover lithograph by Geo. H. Walker & Co., red and black printed typefaces on white, illustration port view of frigate KEARSARGE within rope porthole frame; rubberstamped on back "M.E. MACOMBER,/ WHOLESALE AGENT./ FALL RIVER, NEW BEDFORD, TAUNTON./ THE OLD KEARSARGE MARCH./ OFFICE, 68 GLOBE ST., FALL RIVER, MASS."; 3 pages. Commemorates wreck of the KEARSARGE on Roncador Cay (Colombian island off coast of Nicaragua) while en route from Haiti to Nicaragua on 2 February 1894 (officers and crew made it to shore).

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