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ZFC0175Â 15 stars & 15 Stripes replica flag, 1912-1914.
This flag is a small wool replica modeled after the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the naval portion of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812. Read more
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ZFC0418Â 15 Star U.S. Jack- Merchant ship Vineyard, 1796-1818. This flag now bears 15 stars in three horizontal rows of 5 stars each, corresponding to the official U.S. jack for 1796 - 1818. The field is made of dark blue bunting, pieced horizontally by hand. Read more
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ZFC0423Â 16 Star U.S. Flag, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's First Museum, circa 1796-1803. This unofficial 16 Star flag saluted the sixteenth state, Tennessee, which joined the Union in 1796. Later there were also unofficial flags representing Ohio (1803), Louisiana (1812), and
Indiana (1816). Read more
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ZFC0420Â 16 Star Unofficial U.S. "Grand Luminary" Flag. This is a 16 Star flag in the Grand Luminary pattern, circa 1796- 1808. After Vermont and Kentucky joined the Union in 1791 and 1792, Congress approved a 15 Star 15 Stripe flag in 1795. After that new stars officially recognized no new States until a
revised law went into effect in 1818. Read more
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ZFC2575 U.S. 45 Star – Spanish American War. Possible nautical or maritime Spanish American War flag from 1899. See ZFC0064 Star Spangled Banner Flag House Sub Collection for very
similar flag. Read more
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ZFC0626Â 17 Star U.S. Flag - Hubbard Family, 1803-1812, former Mastai Collection. Flags bearing 17 stars and 13 stripes were never an official flag of the United States; however numerous surviving examples confirm both their existence and use. This example was made to indicate the admission of Ohio as the 17th state in 1803. Read more
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