Old State House Museum Collections Blog

We're gearing up for the Civil War Sesquicentennial and while doing so, we're going through our entire collection of Civil War and Civil War Reunion artifacts to ensure that each artifact has an image. For the past two days, we've been photographing some Civil War reunion related flags. One of the most interesting ones we've come across was a flag made from the material that covered the Arkansas monument at the Shiloh Civil War Battlefield before its unveiling in 1910. We're hoping to prove through research that it was exhibited during the 1911 Little Rock Reunion. You can see the flag in the photograph above.

After photographing the flags, we re-rolled them in new acid free tissue and muslin and then rehung them. Ah, the life of a registrar.