Name/Title
FlagEntry/Object ID
GHS 177Description
35 white cotton stars hand sewn onto blue wool field, american flag, 13 red and white stripes hand sewn together, white cotton twill edging w/ hemp twine, knotted at two corners.
Display card: 35 star flag, this flag was in use from 7/4/1863 until the end of the civil war, bade by the ladies of Germantown for teh Cuyler? Army Hospital in old Town Hall (corner of Haines and Gtn Aves).Made/Created
Date made
1863 - 1864Place
* Untyped Place
Germantown, PANotes
Creation Date: 1863-1864Provenance
Notes
GHS catalogue: flag made by ladies sewing circle of the Hames St. Methodist Church during the civil war.
Donated by:
M.H. Freas 1901-1910