Front:
"Colorado, Playground of America"
99
-President Theodore Roosevelt
THE NEW COLORADO STATE FLAG
ORIGINATED BY DENVER CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
BY THE EIGHTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MAY 6, 1911.
W. H. SHARPLEY.
ADOPTED
BILL INTRODUCED
BY SENATOR
DESIGN BY A. C. CARSON, PRESIDENT OHIO SOCIETY OF COLORADO
Back:
Post (GRD
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Colorado State Flag-Significations
Letter “C” Capital for Colorado
Centennial State
Columbine State
Red Color--“Colorado" in Spanish.
Gold ..... Greatest Gold State
All-the-year Sunshine
One Columbine Color
One color more than the U. S. Flag.
White .... Greatest Silver State
Eternal Mountain Snow
One Columbine Color.
Yale Blue.. All-the-year Blue Sky
One Columbine Color.
(Color of the D. A. R.)
Cords and
Tassels ...
Two Cords of Gold and Silver
Strands Intertwined.
One Gold and One Silver Tassel.
