Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 24th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Robert C. Toy
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Red field with a white cotton number "24" applique. The "4" of the applique is backwards. Two diagonal blue stripes, or bends, run the hoist to the end of each tail, crossing where the swallowtail forks. White hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "R.C. Toy 49 N. 9th Phila 24 Army Corps Chief Q.M." The flag is machine-stitched with white cotton thread.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Flags
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
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content: Designating Flags
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content: Flags
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25254C
label: catalog number
content: 25254C
label: accession number
content: 64127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag, designating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 59 in x 46 in; 149.86 cm x 116.84 cm