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Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous light O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous light
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming;
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

(American, 1906–1909)
Medium/TechniqueChromolithograph and metallic pigment on embossed card stock.
DimensionsHorizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineLeonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession number2014.9104
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ClassificationsPostcards
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2011, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in the United States, Canada and Europe; 2014, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)
I Commandment Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.
I Commandment
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.
The Rose Company
1908
II Commandment Thou Shalt Not Make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
II Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
The Rose Company
1908
III Commandment Thou Shalt Not Take The Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain.
III Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Take The Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain.
The Rose Company
1908
IV Commandment Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: but the seventh say is the Sabbath of the Lord the Guy: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them in, and rested the seventh day; Where-fore the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and Hallowed it.
IV Commandment
Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: but the seventh say is the Sabbath of the Lord the Guy: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them in, and rested the seventh day; Where-fore the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and Hallowed it.
The Rose Company
1908
V Commandment Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, that Thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth Thee.
V Commandment
Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, that Thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth Thee.
The Rose Company
1908
VI Commandment Thou Shalt Not Kill.
VI Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Kill.
The Rose Company
1908
VII Commandment Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.
VII Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.
The Rose Company
1908
VIII Commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal.
VIII Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Steal.
The Rose Company
1908
IX Commandment Thou Shalt Not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
IX Commandment
Thou Shalt Not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
The Rose Company
1908
X Commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbor's house. Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbor's wife, Nor his man-servant, his maid-servant, Nor his ox, Nor his ass Nor anything that is thy neighbors.
X Commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbor's house. Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbor's wife, Nor his man-servant, his maid-servant, Nor his ox, Nor his ass Nor anything that is thy neighbors.
The Rose Company
1908
MERRY X-MAS
MERRY X-MAS
The Rose Company
Lincoln the candidate
Lincoln the candidate
The Rose Company