Box 2

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Pamphlet titled, "Our Flag" by Hugh Hastings, State Historian of New York, prepared for Philip Livingston Chapter, Sons of the Revolution, Albany, N.Y.

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The majority of this collection contains Isaac Henry Vrooman's papers containing letters, rosters, receipts, and other ephemera from the Sons of the Revolution and Society of the Cincinnati. There are also two items of Catrina Vrooman from the Daughters of the American Revolution

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Letter dated April 10, 1915 from Henry Russell Drowne, secretary of Sons of the Revolution of New York to members in state of New York requesting information about flags carried by Continental troops during the American Revolution.

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Letter, dated February 11, 1916, from Richard M. Montgomery, Jr., Chairman Color Guard, to members of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, requesting donations to the Flag Fund established to purchase flags recommended by the Color Guard of the Society.

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Letter dated March 14, 1917 from Franklin M. Danaker to Isaac Henry Vrooman, Jr. referencing the March 13 letter from Vrooman concerning the proper method for displaying the American flag. The primary issue discussed concerns the proper hanging of the flag when displayed vertically. Danaker and Vrooman concluded that in this case, the union should be on the right side of the flag.

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Letter dated March 15, 1917 from Isaac H. Vrooman, Jr. to James H. Manning discussing the proper way to hang the American flag. Vrooman was a regent in the Philip Livingston Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution, State of New York. Manning was the President of the National Savings Bank of Albany. Letter concerns how the flag was displayed at this bank and contains sketches of different views of displaying the flag. See also A1994/002/022, a letter of response from Manning.

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Letter dated June 7, 1916 from the Flag Day Committee of the Sons of the Revolution of New York State to its members concerning Flag Day exercises. Letter includes the text of the Proclamation by Woodrow Wilson instituting the observance of Flag Day on June 14.

Scope and Contents Letter dated March 21, 1917 from Isaac H. Vrooman, Jr. regent, Sons of the Revolution, New York State to the Adjutant General, War Department requesting information concerning the proper way to display the American flag when used as a banner (vertically). Response glued to verso informs Vrooman that the War Department had not adopted any rules prescribing the manner in which the American flag be used for decorative purposes, but that when the flag is suspended as a banner, it should be hung...

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Letter dated April 2, 1917 from James H. Manning to Isaac H. Vrooman, Jr. which references Vrooman's letter dated March 15, 1917 concerning the display of the American flag at the National Savings Bank in Albany of which Manning is President. (see A1994/002/019). Manning invites Vrooman to meet in NYC to further discuss the display of the flag.

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Meeting summons, Sons of the Revolution of New York for January 24, 1920, with Mr. Telfair Marriot Minton, lecturer on the history of the American flag.