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Caught Our Eyes: Of Flags and Flagging Attention

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When I ran across this image recently, it struck me just how much parades and flags go together and, furthermore, how much people have experimented with displaying enormous flags. In this case, the flag was probably better seen from the photographer’s vantage point than by spectators on the ground.

Female film industry workers carrying a large American flag as part of an National Recovery Administration parade, New York City. Photo by World-Telegram staff photographer, 1933.http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23321
Female film industry workers carrying a large American flag as part of a National Recovery Administration parade, New York City. Photo by World-Telegram staff photographer, 1933.http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23321

As is so often the case, one picture led to another, and I found myself tracing Flag Day, celebrated in the U.S. every June 14th, through pictures.