Flag
- Object Name:
- Flag
- Object ID:
- 1959.027
- Creator:
- Thom, Eliza L. (1817-1888)
- Place of Origin:
- Somersworth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1861
- Description:
- Flag. United States. 34 stars; handsewn; linen and cotton; initials: "GFN" "CRR" on canvas heading.
"G[reat] F[alls] N" "C[onway] R[ail]r[oad"? Large handmade flag with 34 stars of white cotton on a 40" x 53.5 " cotton and wool (mended) field of blue and with 5" to 5.5" wide stripes, 7 red linen and 6 cotton white, all bound on the blue field end with 2" wide cotton band of white.
Flag. United States. Handstitched. Made in 1861 by the young women of Somersworth, NH and displayed over High Street during the Civil War. Canton; resting on the white stripe with 34 5" double appliqued five pointed stars of plain woven white cotton in five rows, four of seven, one of six each hand stitched to a 40" X 53.5" blue field pieced with five fragments of two different types of blue wool and flat felled seamed 0.25". Thirteen stripes measuring 5" to 5.5", seven red wool? (do fiber ID), six white cotton, both are plain weave fabrics. Hoist; band of a balance cotton canvas plain weave with initials "GFN" "CRR" written in brown ink on the stripe end of the reversed side, "Pi"? written in pencil on the obverse side near the canton. Two hand stitched holes, each 1" in diameter, on each corner of the hoist. Selvedges on the outer edge of the first and seventh red stripe as well as the top edge of the canton. Fly end hemmed 0.25". - Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-60 L-126 inches
- Provenance:
- Made in 1861 by the women of Somersworth, NH, one of which was Mrs. Nathaniel Wells. Flown over High Street during the Civil War, then given Mrs. C. H. Wells, who gave it to Mrs. Albert Andrews, who presented it to the Somersworth Public Library on March 2, 1942.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Somersworth Public Library
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