Front:
STATE FLAG OF OHIO
Authorized by Section 28 of the General Code
of the State of Ohio.
Distributed by
DON H. EBRIGHT
Treasurer of State of Ohio
Back:
OHIO STATE FLAG
The Ohio Flag was first publicly displayed in 1901 at the Ohio Building of the
Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. It had no legal status, however, until the follow-
ing year. A bill authorizing and describing the flag became a law May 9, 1902.
Following is the essential text of the act:
"The flag of the State of Ohio shall be pennant shaped. It shall have three red and
two white stripes; the union of the flag shall be seventeen five-pointed stars, white, in a
blue triangular field, the base of which shall be the staff end or vertical edge of the flag.
and the apex of which shall be the center of the middle red stripe. The stars shall be
grouped around a red disc superimposed upon a white circular "O". *** The pro-
portional dimensions of the flag and of its various parts shall be according to the official
design thereof on file in the office of the Secretary of State."
The thirteen stars grouped about the circle represent the thirteen original states;
the group of four stars indicates those added, including Ohio, at the time of the state's
admission into the Union. The white circular "O" is the initial letter of the name of
the state.
(Not printed at expense of the state.)
Printed for the School Children of Ohio
with the compliments of DON H. EBRIGHT,
Treasurer of State of Ohio..
