Designating Flag, Headquarters, 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. Two inch gold fringe is machine sewn onto all sides of the flag except for the hoist. In the center of the white band is a painted black (or brown--very faded) eagle with a shield on its breast. The number "21" is inscribed in the shield. White canvas hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "Headquarters 21st Army Corps." The flag is machine-stitched with 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
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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.25251A
label: catalog number
content: 25251A
label: accession number
content: 64127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag, designating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (part: heading material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 74 in x 47 in; 187.96 cm x 119.38 cm