Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1962.038

Creator:

Queisser, Robert L. (1866-1939)Designer

Place of Origin:

United States

Date:

circa 1943

Description:

Flag. World War II National Service. Commercially manufactured. Officially accepted patent by Robert Quisser, Cleveland, OH. Machine stitched. Probably belonged to Julia Nelson Patterson Guyol (1872-1965), mother of Philip N. Guyol (1905-1996), who served in the army during World War II. Plain woven cotton with four pieces of red fabric 0.25" flat felled seamed at the center to a 9" x 4.25" white field with an 2.50" double appliqued blue star (raw edges). Hoist end bound with a plain woven cotton header and two brass grommets, one on each end. Text hand written in ink "N/1/L/N 13x19" on the header.Three hemmed edges, top and bottom 0.25", fly end 0.50" with two parallel rows of stitches on the fly end.

WWI Mass flag hysteria; out flag your neighbor; National service flag Robert Quisser, Cleveland, Ohio; accepted pattern in WWII; officially accepted; red, sacrifice for country; blue in service; purchase through department store; magazine ads

Material:

Textile
Cotton
Brass

Dimensions:

W-13 L-18.5 inches

Provenance:

Found in the Joab N. Patterson Papers (NHHS library accession 1962-19). General Patterson was the father of Julia N. Patterson Guyol. Her son, Philip N. Guyol, enlisted in the U.S. Army on October 4, 1943.

Credit Line:

Gift of Philip N. Guyol

People:

Guyol, Philip N. (1905-1996), Guyol, Julia P. (1872-1965), Queisser, Robert L. (1866-1939)

Subjects:

World War II, Flags, Military flags, Military service, Stars, Banners, Textiles