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Quote Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt, London 1843———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday January 12, 1910
From a 19th Century Song Sheet: “The Song of the Shirt” by Thomas Hood

Printed by J. Andrews of New York, about 1850:

Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood, J. Andrews, Printer, NY, 19thC Song Sheets, LoC

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SOURCE & IMAGE
-From Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Collection, LOC
https://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.sb40482a/?st=text
https://www.loc.gov/item/amss.sb40482a/

See also:

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 11, 1910
“The Strike of the Singers of the Shirt” by Rose Strunsky for International Socialist Review, Part I

Per Victorian Web
-First published in Punch, or the London Charivari
16 December 1843.
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hood/shirt.html

From Punch 1843, London
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/thomas-hoods-poem-about-working-conditions-the-song-of-the-shirt

Punch Magazine -Online
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=punch

The Polynesian
(Honolulu, Hawaii)
-Apr 26, 1845
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015408/1845-04-26/ed-1/seq-1/

The Newark Star
(Newark, New Jersey)
-Aug 14, 1909
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91064010/1909-08-14/ed-1/seq-9/

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The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood