Betsy Ross
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Elizabeth Griscom Ross, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with designing and making the fir
Painting depicting the story of Betsy Ross' presenting the first U.S. flag to General George Washington, by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1917
Certificate of the American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association, issued 1912; at left and right vignettes of the Betsy Ross House and with the then current grave site of Betsy Ross.
The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a flagpole, then later a plaque and marker to commemorate the burial site of Betsy Ross in Mount Moriah Cemetery
Betsy Ross 200th Anniversary commemorative stamp, issued in 1952
Betsy Ross flag
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The Betsy Ross flag is an early design for the flag of the United States that first appeared in a painting of George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull. This flag had red stripes outermost and sta
Betsy Ross
…Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with designing and making the first U.S. flag, commonly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though historians dismissed the story both then and now, Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental…
The Betsy Ross flag flying outside San Francisco City Hall, in San Francisco, California
Poster for 1917 film Betsy Ross
The Betsy Ross House with the flag flying out front
Betsy Ross 1777, a ca. 1920 depiction by artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris of Ross showing Gen. George Washington (seated, left), Robert Morris and George Ross how she cut the revised five-pointed stars for the flag.