Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 18th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Robert C. Toy
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Red field with two diagonal blue stripes, or bends, that run from one end of the hoist to the opposite swallowtail. The stripes cross at the fork of the swallowtail. In the center of the flag is a white number "18" cotton applique. White cotton canvas hoist with no grommets. The inscription on the hoist reads "R.C. Toy 49 N 9th Phila 18 Army Corps Chief Q.M." Machine-stitched with flat-felled seams using cotton threads.
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: Flags
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content: Designating Flags
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25248C
label: catalog number
content: 25248C
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 (applique material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (part: heading material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 62 in x 50 in; 157.48 cm x 127 cm