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:


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