Flag
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1781
Medium:
Wool, cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 x 74 in. ( 96.5 x 188 cm )
Description:
U.S. flag with an American bald eagle painted in the canton with a U.S. shield at its breast and arrows and a laurel branch in its talons and two arches with thirteen stars above its head and wings; painted in white, red and yelllow on blue wool; twelve red and white stripes; white cotton hoist.
Object Number:
X.64
Gallery Label:
Flags of this design were carried at Yorktown in 1781.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1781
eMuseum Object ID:
7950
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Handkerchief
Classification:
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. ( 40 x 41.9 cm )
Description:
White cambric handkerchief with drawnwork along the inside edge of the hem, embroidered monogram encircled in floral design at one corner.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edna Morse, 1945
Object Number:
Z.1025.3
Marks:
embroidered: at one corner: "C"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
7931
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Upholstery fragments
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Cotton, satin
Dimensions:
Fragment (1957.2c.1): 7 1/2 x 11 in. (19.1 x 27.9 cm)
Fragment (1957.2c.2): 4 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (11.4 x 57.8 cm)
Fragme
Description:
White cotton copper-engraved upholstery framents in and all over sepia, black and red floral pattern; lined with white cotton with blue and white satin stripes.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Object Number:
1957.2c.1-4
Gallery Label:
These upholstery remnants came from an eighteenth century chippendale chair in the Society's collection.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
7927
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag
Classification:
Date:
1889
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. ( 29.2 x 44.4 cm )
Description:
Silk printed U.S. flag with thirty-nine stars in the blue printed canton (three rows of six and three rows of seven stars); thirteen red and white stripes.
Object Number:
INV.10724b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1889
eMuseum Object ID:
7913
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Regimental flag
Classification:
Date:
1781-1783
Medium:
Silk, linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 16 1/4 in. ( 73.7 x 41.3 cm )
Description:
Silk regimental flag fragment of the Third Connecticut Regiment; painted with a silver sword and the Roman numeral "III" on a tan ground; natural linen sleeve for flagpole.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Jorge R. André
Object Number:
1948.157
Gallery Label:
This flag was carried by the Third Connecticut Regiment under the command of Colonel (later Brig. Gen.) Samuel Blachley Webb from January 1, 1781 to the end of the war in 1783. It was given to the Society by the grand-niece of Col. Webb.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
7898
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
American flag
Classification:
Date:
1907-1912
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. ( 39.4 x 59.7 cm )
Description:
Silk printed U.S. flag with forty-six stars in the canton (four rows of eight divided by two rows of seven stars); thirteen red and white stripes.
Object Number:
INV.2433
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
7896
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ribbon
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 24 1/2 in. ( 5.1 x 62.2 cm )
Description:
Pale green silk ribbon printed in black with "NEW YORK." flanked by United States shield.
Object Number:
INV.982
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
7886
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
shelf fringe
Classification:
Date:
1880-1890
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. ( 24.1 x 49.5 cm )
Description:
Crocheted shelf fringe with tan cotton thread, two red ribbons woven in across the top; tassel fringe.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Hazel L. Muller
Object Number:
1944.292
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
7844
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Textile fragment
Classification:
Date:
1800-1900
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 53 in. ( 77.5 x 134.6 cm )
Description:
White cotton textile fragment.
Object Number:
Z.1305
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
7840
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Textile Fragments Damast
Classification:
Date:
1850-1925
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 26 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Hemmed, roughly rectangular piece of pale blue silk damask.
Object Number:
INV.14565
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
7835
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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