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The flag of the United States Territory of Guam was adopted on February 9, 1948. The territorial flag is a dark blue field with a narrow red border on all sides. The red border – a later addition – represents the blood spilled during World War II and earlier Spanish sovereignty.
History. Pre-Contact era. A map showing the Neolithic Austronesian migrations into the islands of the Indo-Pacific. Guam, along with the Mariana Islands, were the first islands settled by humans in Remote Oceania.
U.S. territorial flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) bordered in red and bearing at its centre a red-bordered ellipse containing a brown boat with a white sail on a dark blue sea, a light blue sky, a gray cliff in the background, and yellow sand in the foreground with a coconut palm.
Timeline of U.S. state flags. This article contains a list of the flags and/or modifications made to the flags of current U.S. states and territories, through the present day.
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The current flag depicts the Great Seal of Illinois, which was originally designed in 1819 and emulated the Great Seal of the United States. In the eagle's beak there is a banner with the state motto, "State Sovereignty, National Union." The dates on the seal, 1818 and 1868, represent the year Illinois became a state and the year in which the Great...
The first Great Seal of the State of Illinois was adopted in 1819 by the first Illinois General Assembly. The first law authorizing the Great Seal required the secretary of state of Illinois to procure and keep the seal. The first seal engraved was essentially a copy of the Great Seal of the United States. It was used until 1839, when it was recut....
Initial adoption, 1915
During her time as state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1912, Ella Park Lawrence began a campaign to have Illinois adopt a state flag. She was unsuccessful during her time as state regent, but continued to lobby members of the Illinois General Assembly to adopt a state flag as a member of the Rockford chapter of the DAR. On April 1, 1914, Lawrence sent a letter to every Illinois chapter of the DAR announcing a contest to design an Illinois state flag, with the win...
1969 alterations
In the 1960s, Chief Petty Officer Bruce McDaniel petitioned to have the name of the state added to the flag. He noted that many of the people with whom he served during the Vietnam War did not recognize the banner. Governor Richard B. Ogilviesigned the addition to the flag into law on September 17, 1969, and the new flag, designed by Sanford (Florence) Hutchinson, became official on July 1, 1970.
Illinois Centennial design
For Illinois's first 100 years of statehood in 1918, Wallace Rice, who designed Chicago's flag, designed a centennial flag for the state. It had three horizontal bands of equal width alternating white, blue, white. It was charged with 21 stars along the edge of the hoist. There were 10 blue stars in the upper white band and 10 in the lower white band, representing the 10 northern and 10 southern states at the time of Illinois' statehood in 1818. The center blue band had one large, white star...
Seal of the attorney general of IllinoisSeal of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional RegulationSeal of the Illinois State Toll Highway AuthorityIn 1918 Springfield artist George H. Schanbacher painted the eagles and shields between the corbel statues in the upper rotunda as part of Illinois' centennial celebration. This shield was modeled..."The Great Seal of the State of Illinois". Illinois.gov. Archived from the originalon September 26, 2014."Illinois State Flag". Illinois.gov. Archived from the originalon June 28, 2010.Whitlock, Brand (January 1913). "Great Seal of Illinois: First Complete History of the State Symbol". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 5(4): 435–450.Current territory flags. These are the current official flags of the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States. Dates in parentheses denote when the territory's current flag was adopted by its respective political body. [citation needed] Flag of American Samoa. (April 17, 1960) Flag of Guam.
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May 19, 2024 · Get to know these symbols of Chamorro culture that represent Guam history, identity, and island pride. The Guam Seal. Before Guam had a flag of its own, the flag of Spain was raised over the...
