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November 3, 2009

Conserving Minnesota’s Battle Flags

Filed under: Podcasts — Matt Anderson @ 4:37 pm

The Minnesota Historical Society recently began a project to conserve several Civil War and Spanish American War battle flags. Doug Bekke, Assistant to the Textile Conservator, explains the painstaking process of examining and treating each of these historic banners.

 
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One Response to “Conserving Minnesota’s Battle Flags”

  1. Sheila Hanke Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Loved it! I am so proud to be from MN!

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