ZFC Item Section - U.S. 45 Star flag

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Exhibition Copy	Display/Presentation History This flag's image was displayed in the presentation at the 6th Annual Flag Symposium sponsored by Good Earth Teas, The Flag House and Star Spangled Banner Museum, in Baltimore, MD, April 9, 2005. The presentation was made by Howard Madaus on The Other 48s a look at the evolution of the 48 star US Flag and the various star patterns it engendered.

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Publication Copy	Mastai, Boleslaw & Marie Louise, The Stars and The Stripes: The American Flag from Birth of the Republic to the Present, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1973, p. 218-219. "The Spanish American War was fought under the flag of forty-five stars, which became official on July 4, 1896. Opposite page: an example of this both unusually handsome and of historical significance. The distant stars on a night-blue canton herald a new era when preference would be for severe coloring and chastened design; the increasing precision of mechanical production of flags furthered this preference. The inscription on the flags headband bears the signature of an officer, J.R. Thompson; you received the flag following the war, in souvenir of his command. In addition the band bears the hand-printed words "1, U.S. Vol. Eng. N.Y. ARMY OF INVASION, 2nd Bat, Co. K. PORTO RICO, 1898" and a long list of places where the flag did duty."
Flag Books	The Stars and The Stripes - Mastai

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Title information is available upon specific request. Additional information available upon request to researchers, writers and others demonstrating special circumstances. In some situations, information may not be available.

Publication Copy

Mastai, Boleslaw & Marie Louise, The Stars and The Stripes: The American Flag from Birth of the Republic to the Present, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1973, p. 218-219.

"The Spanish American War was fought under the flag of forty-five stars, which became official on July 4, 1896. Opposite page: an example of this both unusually handsome and of historical significance. The distant stars on a night-blue canton herald a new era when preference would be for severe coloring and chastened design; the increasing precision of mechanical production of flags furthered this preference. The inscription on the flags headband bears the signature of an officer, J.R. Thompson; you received the flag following the war, in souvenir of his command. In addition the band bears the hand-printed words "1, U.S. Vol. Eng. N.Y. ARMY OF INVASION, 2nd Bat, Co. K. PORTO RICO, 1898" and a long list of places where the flag did duty."

Flag Books

The Stars and The Stripes - Mastai

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Publications