QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Tuesday, June 14, 2022

All Flags Flying

 

John Sauls Inventory

June 14th is Flag Day, the anniversary of the 
adoption of the American flag as a symbol of the U.S.

Top from a Kansas collector
You may want to tell me that the flag is backwards:
Read this first.

From the cover of Robert Bishop & Carter Houck's
book All Flags Flying

Recorded in the Kansas Quilt Project

Online auction, late 19th century

Silk log cabin from a Pook & Pook Auction

Four eagles with flags, Baltimore style, mid-19th century
from Woodard & Greenstein in 1991

Dated 1862, collection of the American Museum in Britain


Stitching a flag quilt in 1904 in Richmond, Virginia


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