Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1986.079

Place of Origin:

United States

Date:

1865-1867

Description:

Flag. United States. Hand-held. 36 stars on a blue field, red stripes printed on linen. Mounted on wooden staff 30.4" long x 0.3" diam. Bottom end broken.

Hand waver flag. United States. Flag measures 11.75" x 18.75". Glazed plain woven cotton. One sided block printed pattern of a 6.25" x 6.75" canton resting on a white stripe with a blue field and 36 five pointed 0.25" white stars, thirteen 1" horizontal stripes, seven red, six white. One 0.25" red vertical strip on the fly end. One raw edge on the top. Part of the fly end possibly cut off. One selvedge on the 7th red stripe. Hoist fed through a slit in a 30.50" (0.25" diameter) wooden dowel with three nails hammered into the dowel.

Material:

Textile
Cotton
Wood
Metal

Dimensions:

W-11.75 L-18 inches

Provenance:

Found by donor in wall of Sheraton Apartments building on Main Street in Concord (formerly a bank) during the removal of a vault about 1960. Total of 6 were found. This is one of three remaining. Donor gave one to Pittsfield Library.

Credit Line:

Gift of Glendon Rafferty

Subjects:

Flags, Banners, Stars, Stripes, Civil War