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The great victory of John Morrissy over the Russian sailor boy : fought in Terra del Fuego, South America, for 60,000 dollars.

Accession number
PML 136667.106
Published
[Dublin? : s.n., 18--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Song celebrating an alleged match between Irish-American boxer John Morrissy and the "Russian sailor boy"; no documentation of the fight appears to exist, and the accounts related in popular ballads such as this one may, in fact, be fictional.
Text printed in one column, with a wood engraving of two men engaged in a boxing match at head of sheet.
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 37 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department