Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 21st Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Robert C. Toy
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular wool bunting flag. Horizontal tricolor design is red on top, white in middle, and blue on the bottom. In the white band next to the hoist edge is a black five-point star applique with a white number "3" painted in the center of the star. White cotton hoist with an inscription that reads "3rd Brg 1st Div 21st Army Corps." Flat-felled machine-stitched seams joining red, white, and blue panels; machine-stitched open pole sleeve (hoist) with hand-stitched twill tabs at ends; machine-stitched single (back) and double (front) seams hold cotton star patches to both sides.
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.25251E
label: catalog number
content: 25251E
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: Measurements
content: overall: 74 1/4 in x 44 in; 188.595 cm x 111.76 cm