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Title
Twenty-Seven
Star
Flag
Subject
Education
Ohio Women
Flags
Place
Houston (Ohio)
Shelby County (Ohio)
Description
Schoolteacher
Catherine
Vandemark
Wilson
Cain
(1826-1916)
hand-sewed
this
twenty-seven
star
flag
to
display
in her
classroom
in
Houston
,
Ohio
in
1845
.
Flags
with
twenty-seven
stars
are
fairly
rare
,
since
three
more
states
entered
the
Union
in the
next
three
years
. With the
admission
of
Florida
to the
Union
on
July
4
,
1845
, a
twenty-seventh
star
was
added
to the
national
flag
. On
July
4
,
1846
,
however
, the
flag
was
updated
to
reflect
the
new
state
of
Texas
.
Two
more
stars
were
added
for
Iowa
(1847)
and
Wisconsin
(1848)
during
the
administration
of
President
James
K
.
Polk
(1845-1849)
. The
flag
measures
44
" by
52
"
(112
by
132
cm)
.
Catherine
Wilson
Cain
lived
in
Houston
,
Ohio
in
Shelby
County
. She
worked
as a
schoolteacher
before
marrying
David
Cain
in
1855
.
Two
of her
quilts
are also
digitized
for the
Ohio
Memory
Scrapbook
.
Creator
Cain, Catherine Vandemark Wilson
Date of Original
1845
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution
Shelby County Historical Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om397_793476_001.tif
Image Height
1764
Image Width
2268
File Size
469.639 KB
Format
picture
;
objects
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