Object Details
- Description
- Physical Description
- Three wool bunting fragments with raveled edges.
- Specific History
- These three fragments were cut from the flag that flew from Fort McHenry in 1814. This was the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner. In 1880 the fragments were presented to William Carter by Eben Appleton, the grandson of the commander of Fort McHenry. Carter, a local historian, carried the Star Spangled Banner in a parade during Baltimore’s Sesquicentennial Celebration on 13 October 1880. As the flag was being packed for shipment to New York, Appleton cut three pieces and gave them to Carter. Carter’s daughter gave them to the Maryland Historical Society who donated them to the Smithsonian.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Associated Name
- Appleton, Eben
- Key, Francis Scott
- maker
- Pickersgill, Mary
- date made
- 1814
- associated date
- 1880 - 1889
- Credit Line
- Maryland Historical Society
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 190 mm x 70 mm; 7 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- fragments, flag
- Other Terms
- fragments, flag; Sheets of Paper, Set of; Documents
