Collection Highlights
The Dead at Gettysburg
Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
PR.164.4.38.GettysburgDead
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Flag: 54 stars, 5 stripes
Object Number:
1939.276
Date:
1939
Medium:
Cotton, metal grommets
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 3/4 x 60 3/4 in. ( 90.8 x 154.3 cm )
Marks:
printed: on tag on hoist: "DETTRAS/ FLAG/ PRODUCTS/ STANTEST/ BUNTING/ FLAG"
printed: on hoist: "3x5"
Description:
Cotton flag with a central printed blue stripe with fifty-four stars (three groups, two groups of fifteen stars with a group of twenty-four between); central stripe between two white and two red stripes; white cotton hoist with metal grommets at each end.
Gallery Label:
This flag was flown at the 1939 World's Fair. It was used with two others from the Society's collections.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
