Designating Flag, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Department of West Virginia
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Robert C. Toy
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting pennant flag. Blue field with a white border around all sides except the hoist. In the center of the flag is an eagle, in flight, with an olive branch and three arrows in its talons. The eagle is painted in white pigment paint and faces the hoist of the flag. White cotton hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "2nd Brg 3rd Div Dept. of. West Va." The flag has machine-stitching and flat-felled 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
label: See more items in
content: Civil War
label: See more items in
content: Military
label: See more items in
content: Designating Flags
label: See more items in
content: Flags
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25261M
label: catalog number
content: 25261M
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 (eagle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 58 1/2 in x 42 1/4 in; 148.59 cm x 107.315 cm