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Description
The "great Filene flag" was borrowed from Filene's Department Store in Boston, Massachusetts to celebrate Flag Day on June 14, 1917.
The flag was 50 feet tall and 100 feet wide, and weighed 350 pounds. It was hung on the front of the the Pepperell Manufacturing Company's building #3 to great fanfare, attended by large crowds as well as the 7th Company, Coast Artillery Corps (C.A.C.), which would depart for service at Fort Williams only two weeks later.
About This Item
- Title: Flag Day celebrated in Biddeford, 1917
- Creator: AZO
- Creation Date: 1917-06-14
- Subject Date: 1917-06-14
- Location: Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: carr0491
- Collection: Richard N. Carr Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Biddeford (Me.)
- Filene's (Department Store: Boston, Mass.)--History.
- Flag Day.
- Flags--Maine--Biddeford
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company.
- Soldiers--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile industry--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile workers--Maine--Biddeford
- World War I
Other Keywords
- 7th Company
- C.A.C.
- Carriages
- Coast Artillery Corps
- Filene's flag
- Flag Day
- Maine National Guard
- Seventh Company
- Suits
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McArthur Public LibraryPO Box 346, Biddeford, ME 04005
(207) 284-4181
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