Betsy Ross's Five Pointed Star: Elizabeth Claypoole, Quaker Flag maker - A Historical Perspective

This in-depth study of art and folklore with museum images and exhibits presents new information to support the essence of the Betsy Ross family story as told by William Canby in 1870. It is now clear that Betsy was a legend in her own time. The 1893 picture, "Birth of Our Nation's Flag" by Charles Weisgerber served to mythologize an exceptional woman at the time when our country was in the grip of patriotic ferver, and her life was idealized.