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May 6, 2023 · In the 19th Century, as appears customary in many US Cities, the lack of an official flag did not mean there were no city flags. In many cities the solution was to place the City Seal on a white field. Two images of such a flag for Boston exist. The Bard Brothers painted the Steamship J. Putnam Bradlee wearing a Boston City Flag in 1876.
Jul 16, 2016 · The center of the flag features the City seal surrounded by two white rings. The municipal standard flag features an image of the Trimountain on the back and a fringe of Continental buff. The City flag has no image on the back and no fringe. The image on the City flag is either painted on or woven into the fabric. The flag fabric is silk.
Nov 19, 2021 · The Supreme Court Will Settle Boston’s Religious-Flag War The flagpoles in front of Boston’s City Hall have become the source of a most vexing debate about religious freedom in the public square.
The flag of Boston consists of a sky blue field and the seal of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the center. The flag is sometimes flown in a darker shade of blue, more of a turquoise. It was designed in 1913 and adopted by the Boston City Council on January 29, 1917.
Mar 6, 2019 · Residents would be excused if they were unaware Boston had a flag. With the city’s 1800s-era seal on a blue background, it flies outside Boston City Hall and at Boston Common, and virtually only ...
Jun 14, 2017 · Boston’s flag, 100 years old this year, is a typical example: The city’s seal on a solid background—literal, lacking in symbolism, basically pointless. It doesn’t have to be so. There’s ...
Dec 31, 2017 · The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total. 1868 emblem Boston PublicSchools May20 BostonMusicHall.png 424 × 422; 283 KB. 1872 emblem Boston PublicSchools Jan22 BostonMusicHall.png 568 × 476; 419 KB. 20th Annual Wheelmen-007-4.jpg 327 × 492; 52 KB. Seal of Boston, Massachusetts.png 1,251 × 1,250; 213 KB.
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