Brigade colors of the 158th Depot Brigade   Save
Ohio Battle Flag Audiovisual Collection
Description: Brigade Colors pennant of the 158th Depot Brigade, 83rd Infantry Division. It is a swallowtail flag measuring 126 cm high by 156 cm wide, made of wool. The text on flag reads: 158 on a machine sewn applique. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02248
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
Places: Ohio