[Thirty-six star flag] still image graphic still image Woodcuts-Color-1860-1870. xxu 1864 1867 monographic [between 1864 and 1867]
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1 print on linen : woodcut, color ; 53.3 x 91.1 cm (sheet) No known restrictions on publication. 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 PGA - Thirty-six star flag Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02834 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05592 97515549 LC-DIG-pga-02834 DLC LC-USZC4-5592 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/pga.02834 hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3g05592 aacr gihc DLC 970905 20250606175442.2 11702633 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)