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Collection Reference Number GLC07123
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1920s 
Title America the Beautiful [printed text, signed, with accompanying text]
Date ca/ 1925
Author Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929)  
Document Type Miscellany
Content Description Printed text of the four stanza poem, signed at the end on the bottom of page 1, with an additional text on accompanying pages explaining the circumstances of her originally writing it, when inspired by vistas at Pike's Peak. Bates also details the poem's publication history and its musical settings. Dating inferred by previous owner.
Subjects Woman Author  Women's History  Music  Poetry  American West  
Place written [s.l.]
Theme Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945