The Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key - Postcard, c. 1940s
(3 1/2 x 5 1/2 In) This is an original vintage Beals Litho & Ptg. Co., Art Tone Glo-Var Finished postcard from the 1940s. "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER - Francis Scott Key - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous flight,O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. Chorus:Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: And where is that brand, who so vauntingly sworeThat the h