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The Stars and the Stripes : the American flag as art and as history from the birth of the Republic to the present
- Title
- The Stars and the Stripes : the American flag as art and as history from the birth of the Republic to the present / Boleslaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange Mastai.
- Author
- Mastai, Bolesław.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 1973.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mastai, Marie-Louise d'Otrange
- Description
- 238 pages : color illustrations; 27 x 30 cm
- Summary
- This book is the first to show us our national flag - in all its various & surprising incarnations through 200 years - as folk art, as a profoundly moving expression of the feelings of generations of Americans about the events & spirit of their country growth. The beautiful More ...
- Color photos, the superb narrative & captions, trace the development of the flag's design. There are many treasures brilliantly reproduced in full color.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "A Borzoi book".
- Contents
- Introduction -- A short glossary of flag terms -- The American stripes -- The first stars -- A new constellation -- Flag of the seas -- The eagle and the flag -- The starry flower -- Stars in the storm -- The first centennial -- The flag in daily life -- The triumphant banner -- Constellation to galaxy -- A list of official American flags and their stars.
- ISBN
- 0394472179
- 9780394472171
- LCCN
- 73007276
- OCLC
- ocm00800528
- 800528
- SCSB-201647
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library