FRAGMENT OF HISTORICAL AMERICAN FLAG 

 Tliis portion of an American flag (aboviO was found by tlie Crocker Land Expedition in a cairn 

 on the highest of the three summits at Cape Thomas Hubbard, in the Arctic, and is now on view at the 

 American Museum. In these days when Americans feel a quick patriotism at sight of the flag, we can 

 well appreciate the thrill that came to the leader of the Crocker Land Expedition when he found the red, 

 white, and blue with its one embroidered star in the distant nortli. 



This silk flag (below), now in the LTnited States National Capital, was made for Admiral Peary by 

 his wife and carried on the expedition which reached the North Pole. Peary cached portions cut from it 

 at different "farthest north" places: Nos. 1 and 2 at Cape Morris Jesup, 3 at Cape Thomas Hubbard, 4 

 at Cape Columbia, 5 at Peary's "Farthest North" at 87° 6', and 6, the long diagonal strip, on the ice at 

 the North Pole. The portion brought back by the Crocker Land Expedition is No. 3, from the upper 

 middle section; a complete American flag was left in its place 



