Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1918.012.01

Place of Origin:

Possibly New Hampshire

Date:

1897

Description:

Flag. United States. Silk. 45 stars painted in gold on a blue canton. Thirteen horizontal alternating red and white horizontal stripes. "- FROM - / DARTMOUTH'S SONS / - TO - / NEW HAMPSHIRE'S DAUGHTERS." painted in gold block letters on four horizontal red stripes. Painted on both sides. Gold metallic fringe sewn to edge of three sides. Four evenly spaced cream silk ties originally sewn to side; tie at the bottom missing; upper two fragmented.

Flag. United States. Ribbed silk plain weave. Machine stitched. Canton with a blue field resting on a white stripe with measures 26.26" x 31.25" with 45 2.50" five pointed stars painted in gold. Thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red, six white 0.125" flat felled seamed. Painted text beginning on the second red stripe and ending on the fifth, "- FROM - / DARTMOUTH'S SONS / - TO - / NEW HAMPSHIRE'S DAUGHTERS." in gold block letters outlined in black on both sides. Three edges have 2.50" gold metallic fringe. Hoist end hemmed 0.30" and had four, one complete, three now fragments, 1.25" wide 18" lengths cream silk satin ribbon doubled at the center and evenly spaced sewn and stitched to the hoist end.

Material:

Textile
Silk

Dimensions:

W-53.5 L-72 inches

Provenance:

Presented to New Hampshire's Daughters by Dartmouth College at a banquet held at the Hotel Vendome, Boston, on Saturday, March 20, 1897. Given to the New Hampshire Historical Society with two banners by New Hampshire's Daughters in 1918.

Credit Line:

Gift of New Hampshire's Daughters, Boston, Massachusetts

People:

Dearborn, Sarah F. (1854-1929)

Subjects:

Flags, Banners