File:Placing the Stars.jpg
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English: "Placing the Stars on the Flag That Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write Our National Anthem, Claggett's Brewery, Baltimore, 1812-1814"
Oil painting depicting Mary Pickersgill and her nieces in 1813, sewing the flag that would become known as the Star-Spangled Banner. |
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Source | Maryland girl helped stitch historic ‘Star-Spangled Banner’, The Washington Post, August 5, 2013 |
Author | Robert McGill Mackall |
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The author died in 1982, so this work is also in the public domain in jurisdictions where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ ไทย ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文(简体) ∙ 中文(繁體) ∙ +/− |
The painting was published on postcards apparently printed in 1964, with no copyright notice.
Scans of the postcards are found for sale on eBay and other sites, with the complete text on back of the postcard as follows:
Placing the Stars
R. McGill Mackall's painting of a little-known moment in American history — which took place in a Baltimore brewery, where the stars were put on the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem — hangs in the new Carling Brewery Company plant, Exit 9, Baltimore Beltway. Tours 10 A.M. Tuesdays and 2 P.M. Thursdays.
Visit the Flag House, Fort McHenry, the U.S.F. Constellation
Star-Spangled Banner Sesquicentennial
Baltimore, Maryland, 1964
Mirro-Krome ® Card By H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., New York 36, N.Y.
Pub. by David E. Traub, 2313 South Rd., Baltimore 9, MD.
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current | 04:33, 13 July 2022 | 2,730 × 2,189 (1.45 MB) | Toohool (talk | contribs) | Uploaded a work by Robert McGill Mackall from [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/maryland-girl-helped-stitch-historic-star-spangled-banner/2013/08/05/62f9fa10-fa0f-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html Maryland girl helped stitch historic ‘Star-Spangled Banner’], ''The Washington Post'', August 5, 2013 with UploadWizard |
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