Collection Highlights
The Rail Candidate
Date:
1860
Object Number:
PR.010.1860.Rail
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Flag
Object Number:
INV.11423a
Date:
1900-1950
Medium:
Wool
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/2 x 61 in. ( 92.7 x 154.9 cm )
Description:
Wool machine sewn reproduction Bunker Hill flag; red field with a white canton bearing a green block-printed pine tree.
Gallery Label:
No original flag survives from the Revolutionary battle of Bunker Hill. This reproduction of the John Trumbull version, after his painting of 1785-6, is based on the Massachussetts ensign. Although, it has been debated whether there was a flag flown on the hill at all. Current historians do not believe there was one, but Trumbull himself witnessed the battle, so it is possible that a flag of this type was flown or carried by a Massachussetts regiment.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
