Flag Conservation Committee

NAVA actively promotes conservation, preservation, and restoration of historic flags by raising and granting funds for museums and other repositories, and by lending its name in support of these efforts. NAVA's Flag Conservation Committee began work in 2001. It awards the now-annual Grace Rogers Cooper Flag Conservation Grant, which has supported the following flags:

2002: General Purposes. Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.

2004: Hardee pattern flag (the 5th Tennessee). Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

2005: 20-star US flag. Old Capitol Museum, Jackson, Mississippi.

Conservation Image

 

2006: 35-star US flag. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island, Maine.

 

2007: Federal-era "Support Our Constitution" flag from late 1700s, Masonic Library and Museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Support Our Constitution flag