Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Command, Department of the Cumberland
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Robert C. Toy
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with a red applique of two crossed swords in the center of the flag. Painted over the crossed swords is a blue "1" (or black?). White cotton hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "1st Brg. 1st Div. Cavalry. Command." The flag is machine-stitched with flat-felled panel seams.
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.25260C
label: catalog number
content: 25260C
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 (heading material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (number "1" material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 72 1/8 in x 48 in; 183.1975 cm x 121.92 cm