An Early Blue Star Service Flag at the Erie Maritime Museum

Bolla, Linda

doi:10.5325/pennhistory.84.4.0519

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Research Article| October 01 2017

An Early Blue Star Service Flag at the Erie Maritime Museum

Linda Bolla

Erie Maritime Museum

linda bolla currently assists the Erie Maritime Museum (PHMC), Erie PA, with research, exhibits, and curatorial matters. In her long affiliation with the US Brig Niagara, and with the Erie Maritime Museum since its inception, she has assisted with design, fabrication, and development of the museum's permanent exhibits and interpretive programs, as well as with educational outreach and public events.

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Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (2017) 84 (4): 519–524.

https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.84.4.0519

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Blue Star Service Flags note the military service of a family member. They began during World War I. One early such flag hung in the Erie home of USS Wolverine sailor William H. Stine. Stine, the flag, and their history is discussed as a way for the Homefront to quietly, proudly, and publicly, note the service of a loved one.

Blue Star flags, William H. Stine, USS Wolverine, Erie, PA, Erie Maritime Museum

2017

The Pennsylvania State University

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