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Creator Pickersgill, Mary.
Title Fragment of the American flag, "Star Spangled Banner."
Date 1813
Physical Description Cotton.
Notes The flag was commissioned by Major George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry, and made by Mary Pickersgill. Small pieces of the flag were given away as relics; over two hundred square feet of the Star-Spangled Banner was eventually given away, including one of the stars.
Note on back of frame reads: "Fort McHenry Sept. 13 & 14 1874. The original of the "Star Spangled Banner." Photographed June 24, 1873 by permission of Mrs. Georgianna Armistead Appleton, daughter of Colonel Armistead."
Part of the McAllister Collection.
Exhibited in: the Smithsonian's exhibition, Snippings from the Star-Spangled Banner (2001); the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's exhibition, "Our Flag Was Still There": The Star-Spangled Banner's Bicentennial (2014).
Subject Flags -- United States.
Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- War of 1812.
Genre Flag.
Location OBJ 286
Accession number OBJ 286