Our flag and our songs; a brief story of the origin and life of the United States flag (1917)
Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936 · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 17
d with power to have it put intoeffect. In the back room of the quaint little old housestill standing in Arch St., Philadelphia, they com-missioned Mrs. Betsy Ross, an expert needle-woman, to undertake the work. Washington gaveher a rough sketch of what was wanted. Where-upon, we are told, she… … ^f^ft7H((»m]j///[(i((ia(i( 1 THEBET5YR055H0USE235 Arch sr.PhiladelpViia [14] The First Stars and Stripes That Washington should have had so impor-tant a share in estabhshing our national standardseems eminently fitting. When Fort Stanwix(where the city of Rome, N. Y., is to-day) wasbesieged in…
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