Image: Defence of Fort M'Henry broadside

Description: One of two surviving copies of the 1814 broadside printing of the Defense of Fort McHenry, a poem that later became the national anthem of the United States.
Title: Defence of Fort M'Henry broadside
Credit: Scan of a surviving copy from the Smithsonian
Author: Francis Scott Key
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