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| Title: | Banners of Liberty: An Exhibition of Original Revolutionary War Flags | | Date: | 4/19/2025 - 8/10/2025 | | Address: | Museum of the American Revolution, 101 S Third Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | | Location: | Philadelphia, PA | | Hours: | 10:00am - 5:00pm | | Cost/Cover: | free - $25 | | Web Page: | https://www.amrevmuseum.org/exhibits/banners-of-liberty-an-e ... | | Contact Info: | 215-253-6731 |
| Details: | The Museum will mark the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) with a new special exhibition, Banners of Liberty: An Exhibition of Original Revolutionary War Flags, opening April 19, 2025. The exhibition, which will be displayed in the Museum's first-floor Patriots Gallery, will feature the largest gathering of rare and significant Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries. Armies and navies in the 1700s employed artistically embellished flags to identify their armed forces on land and sea, to aid in maneuvers, and to instill "esprit de corps" within military units. Flag makers, including Philadelphia’s Rebecca Flower Young and Elizabeth “Betsy” Ross, employed colors and designs to represent national identity and political ideals. For America’s Revolutionary generation, the flags that flew over their regiments and ships were perhaps the first visual expressions of liberty and independence that they saw.
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| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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