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- GLC#
- GLC07123
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1925 ca.
- Author/Creator
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929
- Title
- America the Beautiful [printed text, signed, with accompanying text]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 13.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Roaring Twenties
Printed text of the four stanza poem, signed at the end on the bottom of page 1, with an additional text on accompanying pages explaining the circumstances of her originally writing it, when inspired by vistas at Pike's Peak. Bates also details the poem's publication history and its musical settings. Dating inferred by previous owner.
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