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Exhibition Copy	Baltimore Star Spangled Banner Flag House 3/2004 (ZFC1403) 33-Star United States Flag Date: 1859-1861 (Oregon was admitted to statehood on February 14, 1859) Media: Wool bunting field and canton with white cotton stars, all hand sewn. Size: 102" on the hoist by 155" on the fly (8.5' by 13') Comment: Oregon's entry into the Union on February 14th, 1859 prompted a rapid obsolescence of the 32-star flag adopted the year before to honor Minnesota's statehood. On July 4th, 1859, the 33-star flag became official. Although the imaginative star arrangement of this flag is similar to the diamond pattern that the U.S. Army began to experiment with in 1845, the flag's size in no way conforms to the size requirements for either the Army garrison flag (20 by 36) or the newly adopted Army storm flag (10 by 20). It is likely, therefore, that this flag belonged to one of the many merchant ships flying under the U.S. colors. Provenance: Acquired by the Zaricor Flag Collection in 1996 through auction at Butterfield & Butterfield of San Francisco, CA. Washington University at St. Louis October, 2004 (ZFC1403) 33-Star United States Flag: The American Civil War Begins (1859-1861) In the atmosphere of political turmoil and bloody conflict that followed the Compromise of 1850, the candidate debate was introduced in the 1858 Illinois U.S. Senate campaign. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln squared off in the now famous debates over the issue of popular sovereignty in the territories seeking admission to the Union as new states. This 33-star diamond pattern flag was in use when Abraham Lincoln, capturing an electoral majority but not the popular vote, won the presidential election of 1860. It is similar to the flag that flew at Fort Sumter at the outbreak of the Civil War. The 33-star flag was the first of four star counts (33-36) that flew throughout the Civil War.
Exhibition Images	Baltimore Exhibit, 2004 Washington University 2004 Presidential Debate

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