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Exhibition Copy | 33-Star, 10-Stripe United States Flag Date: 1859 - 1860 (official on 4 July 1859 subsequent to Oregon's admission to statehood on 14 February 1859) Comment: This all-cotton U.S. flag bears its 33 stars in the form of two concentric circles in the canton. They may have symbolized the eternal nature of the federal union during that era of the threatened secession. According to family tradition, the Dodge family made this flag while enroute to Oregon along the Oregon Trail. A shortage of fabric forced its sewers to limit the number of stripes to ten (rather than the official 13) and to utilize crimson instead of scarlet for the red stripes. (ZFC0629) |
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