Flag
- Object Name:
- Flag
- Object ID:
- 1972.503.03
- Place of Origin:
- United States
- Date:
- circa 1889
- Description:
- Flag. United States. Machine stitched with white silk thread, stars stitched with cotton thread. Canton; resting on a white stripe with 42 6.25" five pointed stars of cotton arranged six rows of seven stars each, double appliqued with hand stitches to a 76.75" x 106.50" blue field made from five panels, three of 18", one 18.50", one 4" widths of a plain woven wool 0.25" flat felled seamed on the horizontal.Thirteen 5.50" wide stripes of a plain woven wool bunting, seven red, six white, flat felled seamed 0.25" on the horizontal. Hoist: 1.75" wide casing of a plan woven white cotton canvas, 1" diameter hemp rope stitched inside the casing with a 2.25" loop on each end. Selvedges on the otter edge of the first and seventh red stripe as well as the top edge of the canton. Fly end hemmed 0.75" with three parallel rows of top stitching. "EAGLE" written in ink on hoist.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Hemp
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-141 L-246 inches
- Provenance:
- Found in collection. Based on its size, date, and inscription, it was probably used on the S.S. Eagle, Lake Winnipesaukee, 1889.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Flags, American flag, Stars, Stripes, Banners
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