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Title |
Great Encouragement for Seamen. All gentlemen seamen and able-bodied landsmen... an opportunity now offers on board the ship Ranger, of twenty guns, (for france) now laying in Portsmouth... |
Call# |
E 0415 |
Object Name |
Ephemera |
Object ID |
E 0415 |
Publisher |
Naval Historiocal Foundation, |
Published Date |
1946 |
Summary |
Broadside reproduction: American Naval recruiting poster. This broadside, reproduced in facsimile by kind permission of The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, from the unique original in its collections, is the earliest of the American Naval recruiting posters known to exist. It helped to draw the men who under John Paul Jones captured H.M.S. Drake and harassed British shipping in 1778. |
Subjects |
Broadsides Portsmouth (N.H.) |
People |
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792 |
Search Terms |
Ranger (U.S.S.) |
Physical Description |
facsimile, 9 x 12 in. |
Relation |
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