Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st 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. Red field with a white border on the hoist edge. An eagle in flight, facing the hoist, is painted in the center of the flag in white pigment paint. The eagle is clutching two olive branches and three arrows in its talons. White cotton hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "1st Brg 1st Div Dept of West VA." The flag is machine-stitched with white cotton thread.
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.25261E
label: catalog number
content: 25261E
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 (part: heading material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (part: design material)