The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...

Museum collections stored in building having dormer windows." (Smithsonian Archives Center) 5. The Star-Spangled Banner flag is on display at the National Museum of American History. And it's ...

In 1878, New York stockbroker Eben Appleton inherited the Star-Spangled Banner, the very flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what later became the national anthem. In 1912, he donated the ...

WASHINGTON — The original, handwritten manuscript of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the flag that inspired the song’s lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in Washington ...

Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" down nearly 200 ... manuscript has been united with the flag that inspired his words at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

The star-spangled banner stamp was dedicated Thursday at the National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian has housed the flag that inspired the words for the national anthem since the ...

The original, handwritten manuscript of ìThe Star-Spangled Bannerî and the flag that inspired the songís lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in Washington, what is believed to ...

a curator who oversees the flag at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The Star-Spangled Banner is showing its age now, but the Smithsonian carefully preserved it for display.

Here’s how our national anthem was inspired by the flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Through the perilous fight? The Star-Spangled Banner that inspired Francis Scott Key to ...

Cue up “The Star-Spangled Banner” on virtually any occasion ... Eben Appleton, Georgiana’s son, loaned the flag to the Smithsonian in 1907 for preservation and display, then officially ...

The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington ...

President Harry S. Truman designated the day as National Flag Day in 1949. The Star-Spangled Banner that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became our national anthem may not have flown ...