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Initially, there was little to regulate the design of the U.S. flag. The First Flag Resolution adopted on June 14, 1777, stated only that the flag should have 13 stripes alternating red and white, with 13 white stars on a blue field. It said nothing about the shapes of the stars, their arrangements, or proportions. Flag makers improvised on patterns and number of points; even the alternating 13-stripe arrangement was open to interpretation.
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After two more states entered the Union, a resolution was passed in 1794 to adopt a 15-star, 15-stripe flag. In 1818, Congress decided to limit the stripes to 13, arranged horizontally, and to add a new star for every new state. Each new flag would become official on the Fourth of July following the previous year's admissions. When Texas became part of the United States in 1845, a 28th star was added to the flag. The 28-star flag became official on July 4, 1846, and was in use for one year before another star was added to represent Iowa.
28-star 11-stripe flag: This flag does not conform to any of the limited regulations of flag design that were in place in 1846. Flag stripes had traditionally alternated red and white, and in 1818 Congress set the number of horizontal stripes allowed on the flag to 13. This flag has 11 cotton stripes alternating red, white, and blue. The stars, organized in four precise rows of seven stars, are hand painted on both sides of the fabric. The stars are applied with a shadow effect, which was an intentional effort of the flag maker.
Hand-sewn, single appliqued cotton stars arranged in 4 vertical rows of 7 with 3 additional stars to fly end of canton, and a star at corner of hoist end, cotton canton, hand-sewn cotton stripes, canvas hoist, mounted and framed.
Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual arrangements of the stars and odd proportions, these features being left to the discretion of the flag maker. In general, however, straight rows of stars and proportions similar to those later adopted officially were used. The principal acts affecting the flag of the United States are the following:
The 28 Star Flag is available for purchase from my friends at U.S. Flag Depot, Inc.The 28-Star Flag: This Flag became the Official United States Flag on July 4th,1846. A starwas added for the admission of Texas(December 29th, 1845) and was to last foronly 1 year. The only President to serve under this flag wasJames Polk(1845-1849).Official Flags of the United States13-Star15-Star20-Star21-Star23-Star24-Star25-Star26-Star27-Star 28-Star29-Star30-Star31-Star32-Star33-Star34-Star35-Star36-Star37-Star38-Star43-Star44-Star45-Star46-Star48-Star49-Star50-Star
In 1846, one star was added, representing Texas, bringing the total number of stars to 28. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.Rick Wyatt, 5 April 1998
There is a story about the first American flag set to Sutter's Fort in California, it goes like this:In July of 1846 the U.S. Navy officially took possession of California for the United States. From his northern California anchorage at Yerba Buena (San Francisco), Commodore Sloat dispatched naval landing parties to hoist the United States flag at strategic locations. After flag raisings in Yerba Buena, Monterey, Sonoma and other locations, the small fleet had reportedly run out of the then current 28 star ensigns. The party dispatched to Sutter's Fort was given an obsolete 27 star U.S. flag and some star-cloth to be used to convert it while on their way up the American River. The ultimate appearance of this flag is unknown.Pete Loeser, 31 March 2014
George W. Bush had 28 stars on his flags at the U.S. Capitol, for Texas. The stars are supposed to represent the "Home State" of the president. The 28-star pattern, however, was not the one we have at the top of this page. This photograph by Matt H. Wade at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bush_Inauguration_2005_-_Wade-1.jpg shows they were five columns of 6 and 5, which would have been five rows as a flying flag. These inauguration flags appear to be 5:9 with a square union.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 11 May 2013
As early as 1953, members of the Eisenhower Administration were considering how a new flag would be created to include stars for the admission of the potential new states of Alaska and Hawaii. When the last states had been admitted in 1912, a joint Army-Navy board submitted recommendations to the President who made the final choice. On July 14, 1953, President Eisenhower declared his preferred method to select a flag design was to appoint a joint committee with six members: three representatives from the Armed forces and one each from the Interior Department, State Department and Commission on Fine Arts.
In September 1958, the White House staff decided the time had finally come to determine the procedure for selecting the 49-star flag design. On October 16, 1958, the White House issued a press release stating that the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, along with the Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts were appointed to informally propose the new flag designs to the President. In September 1958, Acting Secretary of the Army, had already sent designs for the 49-star and 50-star flags to the Secretary of Defense that included the designs that would be ultimately selected by the President. At a Cabinet meeting on November 19, 1958, President Eisenhower received a briefing on the history of the flag design process and several suggestions were made regarding designs for the new flags. The President stated a preference for seven staggered rows of seven stars and those at the meeting concurred that this kind of arrangement would easily allow for the addition of the 50th star.
The Committee formally submitted their designs for the 49-star flag on December 30, 1958. On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10798 establishing the design of the 49-star flag. On July 4, 1959, this flag was first officially raised over Fort McHenry National Historic Site with Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton presiding. The Committee formally submitted their designs for the 50-star flag on August 17, 1959. On August 21, 1959, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10834 establishing the design of the 50-star flag. This flag was first officially raised over Fort McHenry National Historic Site on July 4, 1960, with Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton presiding.
From the first year of the Eisenhower administration the public had anticipated that Alaska and Hawaii might be added as new states and that a new flag design would be needed. The earliest submission of a 50-star flag design came in 1953, but the bulk of the submissions began pouring in after the admission of Alaska in 1958. By the time the official design was declared for the 50-star flag more than 3,000 people had sent in their ideas, some of them submitting multiple designs. The designs came in a wide range of media from simple pencil sketches to professionally constructed flags. This was an especially popular project for elementary school children who expressed their ideas with construction paper, crayons, tempera paint, and tiny stick-on stars.
A 27-star American flag commemorating Florida statehood, circa 1860 (Lot 28) sold for $26,250 against an $8,000-$12,000 estimate. A 24-star American flag commemorating Missouri statehood, circa 1822 (below) sold for over five times its original estimate of $5,000-$7,000, realizing $25,000.
Before 1818, there were only two version of official U.S. flags. The first is the 13-star, 13-stripe version that is often referred to as the Betsy Ross flag. The second is the 15-star, 15-stripe version that was adopted by Congress and President George Washington in 1794 (recognizing Vermont and Kentucky), better known as the Star Spangled Banner.
Of course, every official American flag is still a legal flag and may be flown at any time. LIBERTY FLAGS, The American Wave is pleased to offer all of the historic official star pattern American flags. Each flag is made to order, and ships in 10 weeks.
The Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC), as the noted flag historian, the late Howard Madaus stated, Is the largest most important representation of U.S. and American flags in the world. Containing many important foreign flags, the ZFC is more than a large accumulation; rather it is a dynamic working collection, used for research, exhibition and educational purposes. Read more >>
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