Flag with envelope
Classification:
Date:
1861-1865
Medium:
Silk, paper
Dimensions:
Part (envelope): 3 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (7.9 x 14 cm)
Overall (flag): 3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. (7.9 x 13.7 cm)
Description:
Hand sewn U.S. flag with fourteen white embroidered 'x' stars; nine red and white stripes; white envelope with pink printed lines across the front and a U.S. flag topped with a liberty cap printed in pink and blue along the left edge, canton has thirty-four stars in two circles around one large star; brown handwriting above and below the flag and in the center of the envelope.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Sol Salinger, in memory of Sol Salinger
Object Number:
1941.1064ab
Marks:
hand written: on envelope: "Union/ Forever./ The Star Spangled/ Banner O! long/ may it wave/ over the land of/ the free and the/ home of thr Brave/ E. M. Stanford/ Hartford/ Conn."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
30226
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Banner w/dowel: interzone building
Classification:
Date:
1900-1940
Medium:
Wool, cotton, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 61 x 43 x 1 in. ( 154.9 x 109.2 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Purple wool pennant with the inscription, "INTERZONE/ BUILDING" sewn on in white cotton letters; a wooden pole is strung through the top with metal acorn finials at each end; a metal ring is attached at the center for hanging.
Object Number:
INV.11618
Marks:
sewn: center: "INTERZONE/ BUILDING"
Gallery Label:
This pennant is part of a set made with all of the names of the buildings designed by Cass Gilbert (1859-1934). Gilbert was an architect and surveyor. He worked early in his career as a draftsman for McKim, Meade and White. He later moved to Minnesota, and in 1882 won the competition for his design of the State Capitol. He returned to New York and is best known for the Woolworth Building (1913) in lower Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
30223
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Banner w/dowel: West Virginia State Capitol
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1900-1940
Medium:
Cotton, wood, metal finials
Dimensions:
Overall: 61 x 43 in. ( 154.9 x 109.2 cm )
Description:
Red cotton pennant with the inscription, "WEST VIRGINIA/ STATE/ CAPITOL" sewn on in white cotton letters; a wooden pole is strung through the top with metal acorn finials at each end; a metal ring is attached at the center for hanging.
Object Number:
INV.11617
Marks:
sewn: center: "WEST VIRGINIA/ STATE/ CAPITOL"
Gallery Label:
This pennant is part of a set made with all of the names of the buildings designed by Cass Gilbert (1859-1934). Gilbert was an architect and surveyor. He worked early in his career as a draftsman for McKim, Meade and White. He later moved to Minnesota, and in 1882 won the competition for his design of the State Capitol. He returned to New York and is best known for the Woolworth Building (1913) in lower Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
30220
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Banner w/dowel: Texas University
Classification:
Date:
1900-1940
Medium:
Cotton, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 61 1/2 x 41 x 1 in. ( 156.2 x 104.1 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Yellow cotton pennant with the inscription, "TEXAS/ UNIVERSITY" sewn on in white cotton letters; a wooden pole is strung through the top with metal acorn finials at each end; a metal ring is attached at the center for hanging.
Object Number:
INV.11615
Marks:
sewn: center: "TEXAS/ UNIVERSITY"
Gallery Label:
This pennant is part of a set made with all of the names of the buildings designed by Cass Gilbert (1859-1934). Gilbert was an architect and surveyor. He worked early in his career as a draftsman for McKim, Meade and White. He later moved to Minnesota, and in 1882 won the competition for his design of the State Capitol. He returned to New York and is best known for the Woolworth Building (1913) in lower Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
30217
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag: Red Cross
Classification:
Date:
1880-1940
Medium:
Wool, cotton, metal grommets
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 37 in. ( 61 x 94 cm )
Description:
White wool field hospital flag with a red cross in the center; white cotton hoist with metal grommets at each end.
Credit Line:
John Ward Dunsmore Collection, 1941
Object Number:
INV.11778
Marks:
printed: on hoist: "ANNIN & CO. NJ/ 2x3"
handwritten: on hoist: "J. W. Dunsmore Coll. 1941"
Gallery Label:
The donor used this flag as a prop in his studio when painting military and battle scenes.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
30212
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Piece of lace
Classification:
Date:
1800-1825
Medium:
Linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. ( 2.9 x 31.8 cm )
Description:
Ecru linen Brussels lace fragment with plain foot edge, and a row of flowers along the outer edge creating scallops which are finished with beading.
Object Number:
INV.11693
Gallery Label:
This lace was brought from Barbados, West Indies, to Cooperstown, New York, by Captain and Mrs. Miller.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
30195
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag
Classification:
Date:
1864-1867
Medium:
Wool, cotton, linen, metal grommets
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 1/2 x 75 in. ( 97.8 x 190.5 cm )
Description:
Wool machine sewn U.S. flag with thirty-six cotton hand applied white stars (six rows of six stars) on each side of the blue canton; thirteen red and white stripes; natural linen hoist with metal grommets at each end.
Credit Line:
Gift of Emma D. Wilcox, M.D.
Object Number:
1949.188
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this flag was flown during the Draft riots of 1863. Several private homes along Fifth Avenue opened their doors to African-American refugees fleeing from Irish mobs who feared competition from newly freed blacks under the Emancipation Proclamation. This flag was flown over the Bushnell boarding-house from a top story window to notify those fleeing that a guard at the basement would give them admission. A tenant, wife of Maj. Gen. Solomon Merideth, preserved the flag.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1867
eMuseum Object ID:
30194
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag: 38 Stars American
Classification:
Date:
1876
Medium:
Wool, cotton, jute rope, metal rings
Dimensions:
Overall: 98 1/2 x 143 1/2 in. ( 250.2 x 364.5 cm )
Description:
Wool machine-sewn U.S. flag with thirty-eight cotton hand sewn stars in a double wreath around one large central star on the canton; thirteen red and white stripes; jute rope sewn along the hoist; black metal rings along the length of the hoist.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Myron C. Schoonmaker, Jr.
Object Number:
1960.56
Marks:
handwritten: on hoist: "Godell"
Gallery Label:
This U.S. Cenntenial State Flag (Colorado was the 38th state) was raised over Worcester, Massachusetts, City Hall by Lyman Judson Goodell on July 4, 1877, to commemorate the centennial. It was given to the Society by his granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
30191
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag
Classification:
Date:
1864-1867
Medium:
Cotton, wool, jute rope
Dimensions:
Overall: 124 x 184 in. ( 315 x 467.4 cm )
Description:
Cotton U.S. flag with 36 white cotton stars on a blue wool canton; thirteen red and white stripes; red cotton hoist with jute rope run through.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. H. C. Rogers
Object Number:
2480
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1867
eMuseum Object ID:
30188
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flag: 36 Star American Flag
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1865
Medium:
Wool, cotton, metal grommets
Dimensions:
Overall: 95 x 156 in. ( 241.3 x 396.2 cm )
Description:
Wool machine-sewn U.S. flag with thirty-six cotton hand sewn stars in the canton; thirteen red and white stripes; white cotton hoist with metal grommets along its length.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mary Morris and Abby Weld Stevens
Object Number:
1939.160
Gallery Label:
This flag was hung from the front window of 17 East 22nd Street, the residence of John Austin Stevens, Sr., President of the Bank of Commerce during the Civil War. It was flown at half mast and the house draped in mourning when President Lincoln's funeral procession passed through New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
30185
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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