Saturday, July 23, 2011

Flag Restoration


Battle Flag Project leaders Sarah Carlson, left, and Sheila Hanke, right, remove the archival covering from a 15th Iowa Infantry National flag, whose partner regimental flag is also being restored, in the Battle Flag Stabilization Lab at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Both flags first saw war at Shiloh in1862.
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Sarah Carlson works to remove non-authentic stitching from a 15th Iowa Infantry Des Moines unit regimental flag that first saw war at Shiloh in1862, in the Battle Flag Stabilization Lab at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
©Dawn J. Sagert/The Waterloo Courier


A national flag from the 28th Iowa Infantry is one of 315 flags that have been catalogued by the Battle Flag Project at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
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Battle Flag Project worker Sarah Carlson describes her continuing work on a national flag from the 28th Iowa Infantry in the Battle Flag Stabilization Lab at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
©Dawn J. Sagert/The Waterloo Courier


Battle Flag Project leaders Sheila Hanke, left, and Sarah Carlson, right, work to remove non-authentic stitching from a 15th Iowa Infantry Des Moines unit regimental flag that first saw war at Shiloh in1862, in the Battle Flag Stabilization Lab at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
©Dawn J. Sagert/The Waterloo Courier


Battle Flag Project leader Sheila Hanke works to remove non-authentic stitching from a 15th Iowa Infantry Des Moines unit regimental flag that first saw war at Shiloh in1862, in the Battle Flag Stabilization Lab at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
©Dawn J. Sagert/The Waterloo Courier

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