 HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF OREGON AND GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY
Web ID: pat-245  EXCEPTIONALLY RARE 44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH OVERPRINTED ADVERTISING FOR ONE OF ONLY FIVE AMERICAN OPERAS WRITTEN DURING THE 19TH CENTURY: “SHIP AHOY!”; THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE
Web ID: 44-004  1840 CAMPAIGN KERCHIEF FEATURING AN IMAGE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ON HORSEBACK IN MILITARY GARB, ONE OF THE FIRST KNOWN CAMPAIGN TEXTILES IN EARLY AMERICA
Web ID: ker-074  37 SIX-POINTED STARS, IN THREE DIFFERENT SIZES, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION THAT FEATURES A LARGE CENTER STAR, FLANKED IN EACH CORNER BY FANCIFUL CLUSTERS OF 4; A MASTERPIECE AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES; INSCRIBED WITH THE SURNAME “PURSEL”; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN NEBRASKA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1867-1876
Web ID: 37j-839  33 STARS, UPDATED TO 35, IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE DIAMOND MEDALLION & WITH HAND-WRITTEN NOTES RECORDING IT AS HAVING BEEN FLOWN TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES GARFIELD, & WILLIAM McKINLEY, AS WELL AS TO CELEBRATE WARTIME VICTORIES IN THE CIVIL WAR & WWI; MADE BY MILLINER & CIVIL WAR WOMEN’S AUXILIARY OFFICER ELIZA DUNN OF ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, circa 1860-1861
Web ID: 35j-821  46 STAR U.S. MILITARY CAMP COLORS, PRESS-DYED ON WOOL BUNTING, MADE BY HORSTMANN, PHILADELPHIA, SIGNED AND DATED 1909, ON ITS REMARKABLE, ORIGINAL STAFF; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
Web ID: 46j-882  EARLY FLAG OF PHILADELPHIA, PROBABLY 1874-1876, PRINTED ON A WOOL & COTTON BLENDED FABRIC AND HAND-COLORED, EXTREMELY RARE
Web ID: ofj-878  34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE DURING THE OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863, WITH AN UNUSUALLY ELONGATED FORMAT, A SQUARE CANTON WITH AN ATTRACTIVE SHADE OF BLUE, LARGE, MAKE-DO TASSELS, AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE – SOMETIMES TERMED THE ‘BLOOD’ OR THE ‘WAR’ STRIPE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN KANSAS WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION
Web ID: 34j-845  ELABORATE SILK BANNER WITH GILDED TEXT, SPECTACULAR BULLION TRIM, AND A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED RENDITION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAMOUS "PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE", MADE FOR THE PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA, PHILADELPHIA, 1901, BY LOUIS E. STILZ & BRO.
Web ID: pat-252  ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STARS, AN EXTRAORDINARY SURVIVOR OF THE 1820-1840 PERIOD OR PRIOR; FORMERLY ACCOMPANIED THE "EASTON FLAG" AT THE EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, JUNE-JULY 2019
Web ID: 13j-1054  PRINTED COTTON BANNER, MADE FOR THE 1928 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF NEW YORK ASSEMBLYMAN AND SHERRIF TURNED GOVERNOR, AL SMITH, A LEADING PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT DEMOCRAT AND THE FIRST CATHOLIC TO RUN FOR THE NATION'S HIGHEST OFFICE ON A MAJOR PARTY TICKET
Web ID: pat-167  44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE OF SILK, WITH GILT-PAINTED STARS & LETTERS THAT DESIGNATE A CHAPTER OF THE JUNIOR ORDER OF UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS, A PATRIOTIC FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA IN 1853; MADE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1890-1896
Web ID: 44j-815  PRE-1875 PENNSYLVANIA STATE STANDARD WITH A HAND-PAINTED DEVICE ON SILK, METALLIC BULLION FRINGED
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