United States National 34-Star Flag
date: label: date made
content: 1861
label: date made
content: 1861 - 1863
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Cloth consisting of a blue canton with 34 white stars in the upper left quadrant and thirteen equally positioned stripes, 7 red and 6 white.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: The United States National 34-Star flag was adopted with the admission of Kansas as the 34th state in January 1861. It was used until 1863 when West Virginia became a state. At no time did the national flag lose stars. Since the United States believed that secession from the Union was illegal, the flag continued to bear the stars of all the states of the Union, even the Southern states. Flag makers had several designs for the 34-star flag; this is a later one.
place: label: associated place
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Flags
label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War and Reconstruction
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: ThinkFinity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Herbert F. King
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.58182M
label: catalog number
content: 58182M
label: accession number
content: 208701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag
label: Other Terms
content: flag; National; 34 Stars
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bunting (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 1/2 in x 51 in; 80.01 cm x 129.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 ft x 4 5/32 ft; .80162 m x 1.27102 m