The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...

Tony Brooks, left, Director of the Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society and Curator of the Museum, recently accepted a 15-star ‘star spangled banner’ flag, donated by Pat and Mike Korb ...

SAVE OUR HISTORY: THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. Tonight at 8 ... poem called “The Defense of Fort McHenry,” and the 15-star flag that inspired it. That may sound obscure, even for the History ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... Clague: One interesting thing is the flag that Key’s looking at – this flag had 15 stripes and 15 stars. O’er the ramparts ...

D.C. It’s known as the Great Garrison Flag. The fort’s star-spangled banner measured 42 feet by 30 feet and had 15 stars and 15 stripes. It was the custom in the very early days of the nation ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

Baltimore flagmaker Mary Pickersgill delivered. Original Star Spangled Banner, on display at Museum of American History (Smithsonian) The flag raised on the morning of September 14th was a ...

For the first time, Nickelodeon and the Association of Children's Museums are teaming up with Baltimore's Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "We are trying to just get kids out here and families out ...

Pat and Mike Korb, of Drums, recently donated a 15-star "star spangled banner" flag to the Wilkes Barre Preservation Society's Zebulon Butler House Museum. "We thank the Korbs for graciously ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...