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![[Flag of Lincoln, Nebraska]](../images/u/us-ne-li-l.gif)
2:3 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Lincoln’s flag has a medium blue field of 4 by 6 units. In its
center appears the state capitol, a tower in white. The tower overlaps an
incomplete red ring, 2.5 units in diameter, so that the ring appears to
run behind it very near its top, and then continues in a circle on both
sides until about 5 and 7 o’clock, where it is obscured by a yellow ear of
corn with green leaves on either side and congruent to the circle. Between
the ears of corn in the center at the base of the tower is a sheaf of
yellow wheat. The distance from the top of the tower to the base of the
wheat sheaf is 3.8 units. A second red ring, one unit in diameter, is
within the larger ring, and placed behind the tower so that its top edge
is about half way up the tower, and thus only a portion of the ring is
visible. Extending from this ring to the larger ring are four red rays,
one each at about 2, 4, 8 and 10 o’clock. In white block letters on the
larger ring, following its curve clockwise, are CITY OF on the hoist
side and LINCOLN on the fly side.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
A flag design competition was sponsored by the
chamber of commerce, restricted to residents of the city. The prize
was $50. Five judges chose the final design from among more than 50
entries.
Flag adopted: 14 September 1931 (official).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Winner of the competition on 2 September 1931, Mrs.
J. E. Fiselman.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The contest for a flag design was inspired
by a gift from members of the Rotary Club of Lincoln, England,
who presented a flag of their city to Lincoln, Nebraska, during a visit in
May 1928. Various groups in the city discussed the need to have a
similar emblem, which resulted in the chamber of commerce competition.
Frank D. Tomson, chairman of the chamber’s flag committee,
presented the flag to Acting Mayor Blair in a ceremony at city hall on
29 October 1932. In his remarks, Tomson said that a new Lincoln flag
had also been presented to the city of Lincoln, England. In a further
burst of grandiloquent rhetoric, Tomson exhorted, “It should find a
place in every home within this city and be displayed as a hospitable
welcome whenever visitors in numbers from other parts enter our gates.”
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The City of Lincoln (236,146 inhabitants; 82.75 sq. miles) is located in Lancaster County, in south-eastern Nebraska. On 29 July 1867, the three commissioners appointed by the Legislature decided that the capital of the new state of Nebraska, called Lincoln, would be located on the site of Lancaster, a tiny settlement of 30 inhabitants, near Salt Basin in Lancaster County. This choice was the result of pressure to move the capital from Omaha, which was the capital of the Territory. Lincoln was incorporated on April 7, 1869 as a village. On March 18, 1871 it was reorganized into a Second Class City with its own charter as provided by the state legislature for cities between 1,500 and 15,000 population.
Source: www.lincoln.ne.gov/both/glance1.htm
Ivan Sache, 3 March 2007
![[Municipal seal]](../images/u/us-ne-li).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 3 October 2019
Source:
https://lincoln.ne.gov
Paul Bassinson, 3 October 2019
