Collection Highlights
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"
Date:
1810
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1810.94
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Banners: Bull Run, July 1861
Object Number:
1939.561
Date:
1865-1875
Medium:
Cotton, wool, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 22 in. ( 31.1 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
painted: center: "BULL RUN/ JULY 21, 1861."
Description:
Orange glazed cotton banner with white stenciled scrolls in the left top and right bottom corners; inscribed, "BULL RUN,/ JULY 21, 1861." at a diagonal in white letters across the banner; red white and blue twisted wool fringe on the fly end; red, white and blue silk grosgrain ribbon ties at both ends of the hoist.
Gallery Label:
This banner is part of a set of Civil War banners memorializing twenty-two battles of the Civil War. They were given to the 79th Regiment, Scottish Highlanders, New York State Volunteers, by the United States War Department.
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Caledonian Club
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
