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Sidewalk Photographer Alex Richman of Brooklyn, N.Y. was out and about a few weekends ago, and found some red, white, and blue that seemed to follow a theme … wheels! For those of you who don’t live in big cities, the center photo was taken on a train!
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Bob Heft designed our 50-star flag in 1958 as a class project when he was seventeen, and a student in Lancaster, Ohio. Here is his incredible and charming story—in his own words.
NOTE: This video runs for over 48 minutes, and Bob doesn’t start speaking until about 32 seconds on the clock, so be patient [...]

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Reveille

Reveille, a short movie—less than 12 minutes.

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A confluence of images

This photograph from the Library of Congress is titled:
Airplane on battleship deck with American flag in foreground.
It says further down in the text that the person who cataloged the photo titled it. I can’t imagine how daunting a task it must have been—to catalog the thousands of photographs taken by the military photographers during [...]

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Fort Monroe in 1864

Isn’t this a terrific photo! That particular design of the flag was very popular during the period. There must have been a grand wind blowing in from Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic on that day. Notice how everyone is trying to stand still and pose for the photograph. The sign to the right of the [...]

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