still image Woodcuts Color 1860-1870. gmgpc [between 1864 and 1867] Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Memory": Thirty-Six Star Flag. One can imagine that this American flag printed as a color woodcut on linen, celebrates the spirit of reunification in the heady days after the Civil War. It was created between the time in which Nevada became the thirty-sixth state on October 31, 1864, and the addition of Nebraska to the United States on March 1, 1867. Although the Continental Congress passed a resolution that the flag consist of alternating red and white stripes and white stars on a blue ground on June 14, 1777, these design elements were used in a variety of permutations until 1912, when an executive order was issued that established the flag's current proportions. The thirteen red-and-white stripes represent the original thirteen colonies of Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, and the white stars stand for the states of the union. Throughout its history the flag has remained one of America's most powerful national symbols. Title from item. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: "American Treasures of the Library of Congress", 2001-2002. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013. Flags--American--1860-1870. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02834 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05592 No known restrictions on publication.