Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 Content and design by John Bewley

Philadelphia in Images: U.S.S. Pennsylvania

Lithograph by Lehman & Duval Lithogs. on title page of: The Pennsylvania March / composed & arranged for the piano forte and dedicated to Comr. Stewart by J. T. Norton.
Philadelphia: [no publisher identified], 1837.
Box 13, no. 35.

The U.S.S. Pennsylvania was designed by Samuel Humphreys and took fifteen years to build. It was launched July 18, 1837. At the time it was the largest, most heavily armed man-of-war in the world.