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A tale of fidelity, family feud and argument over ownership is the subject of a new inquiry by the Smithsonian National Museum of American ... documenting the history of the flag her father ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...