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 ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

Baltimore flagmaker Mary Pickersgill delivered. Original Star Spangled Banner, on display at Museum of American History (Smithsonian) The flag raised on the morning of September 14th was a ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

According to the Smithsonian Institution, which boasts among its many historical treasures that original star-spangled banner ... Francis Scott Key saw the US flag following the British ...

"The rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air/Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there," Key wrote over the next two days. "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O'er ...

For the first time, Nickelodeon and the Association of Children's Museums are teaming up with Baltimore's Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "We are trying to just get kids out here and families out ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?” In the complete version, Key details his relief at finally seeing the flag, and rejoices in ...