Collection Highlights
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
1805
1867.306
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Flag: 33 stars
Title
Flag: 33 stars
Object name
Flag
Date
1859-1861
Medium
Wool, cotton, linen, bast rope, metal grommets
Dimensions
Overall: 41 1/2 x 70 1/2 in. ( 105.4 x 179.1 cm )
Description
Wool U.S. flag with thirty-three white cotton stars hand applied to the blue canton (three rows of seven interspaced with two rows of six stars); thirteen red and white stripes; linen hoist with metal grommets at either end and a bast rope strung through; hoist inscribed in brown ink.
Credit Line
Gift of Colonel A. Kenny C. Palmer
Object Number
1936.487
Marks
handwritten: on hoist: "Shot away from one of Admiral Farragut's ships/ in Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864, picked up during /the battle by Fleet Surgeon Palmer, visiting the wounded."
handwritten: on one of the stars: "...(?)... J. C. P. ...(?)..."
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