Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The San Diego World's Fair of 1915, which occurred three years after New Mexico's admission to the union, featured an exhibit hall where all U.S. state flags were displayed; lacking an official flag, New Mexico displayed an unofficial one designed by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, the mayor of the state capital, Santa Fe.
More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available.. Albuquerque, New Mexico; Artesia, New Mexico
English: Reconstruction of the first (unofficial) flag of the state of New Mexico (1915 - 1925), designed by Col. Ralph E. Twitchell. For another reconstruction (with somewhat different proportions and monochrome seal), see plate XXXVI, page 152 of The Flag Book of the United States by Whitney Smith (William Morrow and Company, 1970).
According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U.S. state, U.S. territory, or Canadian province, while Georgia's state flag was rated the worst (the latter of which has been changed since the survey was conducted). [4]
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
The colors on the state flag are the red and yellow, similar to the Spanish flag as New Mexico was part of Spanish Empire until the 19th century. New York state flag The New York state flag ...
Printable version; In other projects ... New Mexico is the first state to adopt a state question: ... Flag: Flag of New Mexico (1925) [3] Seal: Seal of New Mexico (1913)
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Seal of the Territory of New Mexico (1887–1912) Great Seal of New York (1901 – 2020) ... Lists of U.S. state topics. Flags of ...