The Great Eastern, the wonder of the world! [electronic resource] / By William Withington

Author:: Withington, William, 1785-
Published:: [Portland, Me.] : Berry, printer, [1859]
Edition:: Second edition. / Price 3c.
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 31 x 21 cm

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American broadsides and ephemera. Series 1 ; no. 690

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Verse in fourteen stanzas; first lines: Great Eastern is coming to visit our shore.
Presumably issued in anticipation of the maiden transatlantic voyage of the steamship to Portland in 1859. The Great Eastern actually made her maiden transatlantic voyage, from Southampton to New York, in 1860.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 27.4 x 14.1 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. 690).

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