Five hundred Chicago tailors realized the largest U. S. flag ever made
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Five hundred Chicago tailors realized the largest U. S. flag ever made
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IN a moment of great patriotic
fervor, five hundred tailors, re-
siding mostly in Chicago, decided
to build this flag. That it is enor-
mous can readily be seen. But not
only is it large—it is the largest
ever made. These fervent five
hundred carried on a thorough in-
vestigation of flags and their sizes
before they started work on thisone.
They learned that the cham-
pion was seventy-five by one hundred
and fifty feet, and promptly decided to
make theirs eighty by one hundred and
sixty feet. And go this enormous creation
is nearly thirteen thousand feet square.
Each strip is six feet wide and each star
is five feet tall. It is so well put together
that there is no “wrong and no “right”
side—both sides are the same. And the
colors, too, are “fast,” so that no thunder
shower will make it “run,” and no sunshine
cause it to fade.
In spite of its great size, the whole thing
weighs only four hundred and fifty pounds,
and is very easy tounfurl. When
it was finished, the tailors dedi-
cated it to their fellow workers
who dropped their shears to take
up guns. It made its debut from
the City Hall building in Chicago
on Labor Day.
The affair was most impressive.
A band of eight hundred sailors
played the national anthem as the
flag was unfurled. Then two hun-
dred thousand people marched by and
saluted it
It has since figured as the star per-
former in many patriotic celebrations.
Once it was the grand finale to a sham
No Man's Land battle which took place
at a war exposition at Chicago.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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53
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
