The story of our flag, colonial and national, with historical sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross
A popular history of American flags with a biographical sketch of Betsy Ross, written and published by Addie Guthrie Weaver in Chicago in 1898 for general readers and schools. Chromolithographed plates show striped and starred flags crossed on staffs, regimental colors with painted devices, mottoes such as "Liberty or Death" and "An Appeal to God", plus pen sketches of houses and a photograph of a star constellation; useful for flag layouts, star arrangements and red-white-blue palettes.













