File:Repair Work on Star-Spangled Banner.jpg
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English: Original description: "Women are at work repairing the Star-Spangled Banner on a set of makeshift tables in the room in the Castle then known as the chapel (now the Commons) in the West Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The closing of the West Wing during renovation allowed the hall to be used for this purpose. To preserve the flag, a team of seamstresses under the direction of Amelia Bold Fowler used a series of interlocking open buttonhole stitches to secure the tattered flag to a backing of unbleached linen. Electric fans can be seen. All the exhibits have been removed except display cases along the wall and the giant squid hanging from the ceiling.
Amelia Fowler was a teacher of embroidery who became involved in flag preservation in 1900. From work for preservation of Civil War flags for the State of Massachusetts, to work in 1912, she and 40 needle-women she had trained on 172 historical flags at the U.S. Naval Academy, Fowler developed a method of preservation she patented in 1913. Fowler agreed to a government contract to do the work on the Star-Spangled Banner. She and her team worked for eight weeks in the hot and humid summer between mid-May and mid-July 1914 in a un-air-conditioned room and sewed on a new linen backing using approximately 1,700,000 stitches." |
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Source | https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_9183 ("Published in The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing, p. 112.") |
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Short title | 27897 and MAH-27897 |
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Date and time of data generation | 29 June 2011 |
Author | unknown |
Headline | Repair Work on Star-Spangled Banner |
Credit/Provider | Smithsonian Institution Archives |
Source | Smithsonian Institution Archives |
Copyright holder | This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. |
Image title | "Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder 25" |
JPEG file comment | "Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder 25"; Women are at work repairing the Star-Spangled Banner on a set of makeshift tables in the room in the Castle then known as the chapel (now the Commons) in the West Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building. |
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Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Date metadata was last modified | 09:20, 6 November 2012 |
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