Conscript how are you? [electronic resource] : As sung by D. McConahy, the Razor Powder Man

Author: Holt, George P.
Uniform Title: How are you conscript?
Published: [Philadelphia] : Johnson, song publisher, 7 N. 10th St., Philadelphia, [between 1863 and 1865]
Physical Description: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 24 x 16 cm

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American broadsides and ephemera. Series 1 ; no. 774

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Song in four stanzas; first line: "How are you conscript?" "How are you to-day?"
See the Library of Congress American memory online archive, America singing: Nineteenth-century song sheets, where another edition, with title "How are you conscripts?" identifies the author as George P. Holt.
Transcribed imprint from head of title. At foot: Johnson, song publisher, stationer & printer, no. 7 N. Tenth St., 3 doors above Market, Phila. See Prof. Brooks' Ball Room Monitor, it will give you more instruction in dancing than any book ever published. Sold by Johnson, no. 7 North Tenth Street, Philadelphia.
Union conscription became an issue after the passage of the draft act in 1863.
Wood-engraved illustration of Union guard in front of tent, cannon and rifles flanking title.
Printed area, including ornamental border described in Library Company of Philadelphia, American song sheets (1963), as "Auner-Johnson," measures 21.4 x 12.6 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 774).

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Lib. Company. Amer. song sheets, 377a

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