United States National 34-Star Flag
Object Details
- date made
- 1861
- 1861 - 1863
- Description
- Physical Description
- Cloth consisting of a blue canton with 34 white stars in the upper left quadrant and thirteen equally positioned stripes, 7 red and 6 white.
- General History
- The United States National 34-Star flag was adopted with the admission of Kansas as the 34th state in January 1861. It was used until 1863 when West Virginia became a state. At no time did the national flag lose stars. Since the United States believed that secession from the Union was illegal, the flag continued to bear the stars of all the states of the Union, even the Southern states. Flag makers had several designs for the 34-star flag; this is a later one.
- associated place
- United States
- Subject
- Flags
- related event
- Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- ThinkFinity
- Credit Line
- Herbert F. King
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- AF.58182M
- catalog number
- 58182M
- accession number
- 208701
- Object Name
- flag
- Other Terms
- flag; National; 34 Stars
- Physical Description
- bunting (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 31 1/2 in x 51 in; 80.01 cm x 129.54 cm
- overall: 2 5/8 ft x 4 5/32 ft; .80162 m x 1.27102 m
- Record ID
- nmah_506840