Flag pole for ZFC0413, Tyrol Banner

Flag pole for ZFC0413, 19th Century Tyrol Banner
This two piece flag staff with a brass joint accompanied ZFC0413, a silk banner with the arms of the Tyrol.

Built in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum was founded in 1895, making San Francisco's first museum. It was a popular venue from its founding, central to Bay Area arts and culture and visited by millions of visitors for over 100 years.

Michael Henry de Young (1849 -1925) was an American journalist and businessman who owned and published the San Francisco Chronicle. He used his wealth to further his eclectic tastes and accumulated a collection of immense variety, such as sculptures, paintings, arms and armor, porcelain, native American and South Pacific artifacts, polished tree slabs, paintings, objet d'art, jewelry, a door allegedly from Newgate Prison, birds' eggs, handcuffs and thumbscrews, and a collection of knives and forks. In addition, as San Francisco's premier repository the de Young Museum came to house a number of flags. De Young displayed many of these in a museum Flag Room, to which this staff possibly originates.

ZFC Significant Flag

Sources:

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History of the de Young Museum, de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 16 November 2011:
http://deyoung.famsf.org/about/history-de-young-museum

Tyrol (state), Wikipedia, 16 November 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrol_%28state%29

Tyrol, Flags of the World, 16 November 2011, from: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/at-ti.html

Frederick IV, Duke of Further Austria, Wikipedia, 16 November 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_IV,_Duke_of_Austria

Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection

Hoist & Fly
Width of Hoist	2
Length of Fly	125.5

Frame
Is it framed?	no

Stars
Are there stars on obverse?	no
Are there stars on reverse?	no

Stripes
Has a Blood Stripe?	no

Crest/Emblem
Description of Crest/Emblem	66" on the bottom 59.5 on the top 2 piece brass fitting mated pole is painted

Nationality
Nation Represented	Austria

Fabric
Fabric	Wood
Comments on Fabric	Painted wood two piece pole with brass joint

Documentation
Documents	All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.
Drawings	All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.

Condition
Condition	Good
Damage	Used
Displayable	yes

Date
Date	1890's