Designating Flag, Headquarters, 3rd Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting swallowtail flag. Blue field with a large white hand-stitched diamond in the center of the flag. A red cotton number "3" is hand-stitched to the white diamond. White cotton canvas heading with a metal grommet at either end. Flag panels and hoist are machine stitched. Flag panels have flat-felled seams. Stitched using brown, white, and undyed cotton thread. Inscription on hoist reads "3RD ARMY/CORP HEADQUARTERS".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: classified
content: Flags
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Centennial Exposition
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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.25264A
label: catalog number
content: 25264A
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 and number applique material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (grommets material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 70 1/2 in x 35 3/4 in; 179.07 cm x 90.805 cm