Origin of the stars and stripes. [4 colored cuts of banners] "A committee of Congress accompanied by Gen. George Washington called on a woman Mrs. John Ross of Philadelphia, to manufacture the first specimen of this banner, a drawing of which ha – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Origin of the stars and stripes. [4 colored cuts of banners] "A committee of Congress accompanied by Gen. George Washington called on a woman Mrs. John Ross of Philadelphia, to manufacture the first specimen of this banner, a drawing of which ha. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Origin of the stars and stripes. [4 colored cuts of banners] "A committee of Congress accompanied by Gen. George Washington called on a woman Mrs. John Ross of Philadelphia, to manufacture the first specimen of this banner, a drawing of which ha
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Few flag stories have traveled as far as the one printed here, which credits Mrs. John Ross of Philadelphia with sewing the first Stars and Stripes for a congressional committee accompanied by George Washington. Four colored cuts show banner designs as 19th-century printers pictured them, since no flag from 1777 survives. Historians find little documentary support for the Ross account, which rests largely on family recollections, yet it became a staple of patriotic print in the 1890s. This Chicago broadside of 1894 shows how the legend circulated.
| Created / published | 1894 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 broadside |
| Notes | Chicago, 1894. 1 p.; 42 x 28 cm. |
| Original scan | 3,396 × 5,113 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 001da |
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