Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Star-Spangled Banner (Flag)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- The Star-Spangled Banner, undated. Note that the "A" sewn into the flag has been whited out in the image The Star-Spangled Banner was the Garrison flag of Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, during the bombardment of the fort by the British, September 13-14, 1814, when it was successfully defended by Colonel George Armistead. The flag was presented to the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., by Mr. Eben Appleton of New York, the grandson of Colonel George Armistead.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 54a, Folder: 22
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Date unknown, probably c. 1940
- Standard number
- 35079 or MAH-35079
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Flags
- National Collections
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9740
