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image by Masao Okazaki, 10 May 2023
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This flag is the official flag of the City of Butler, Pennsylvania, although
you will not find the city flag flying at the city building or displayed in any
way today, City Council once ordered a flag. Here is a
photo of the flag that appeared
in the local newspaper, the Butler Eagle, on Saturday, October 22, 1960.
Butler Eagle
- Saturday, October 22, 1960
CITY COLORS MARK VICTORY
The first official
City of Butler flag, shown by Mayor Harry F. Pepper and Don Bishop Gibson,
flew for the first time last night at the 12-0 Butler victory over Aliquippa
on the Beaver County community's gridiron. The flag, which will be used at
all future official city functions, is light yellow background, orange
fringe, with the city seal in blue.
Flag with fringe
image by Erik Bell, 10 May 2023
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
Saturday, October 22, 1960
Butler Gets Official Flag
Butler, PA. Oct. 21 -
Not to be outdone by other cities of the state, whatever the size, Butler
unfurled an official flag last night at the football game between Butler High
School and Aliquippa High School at the latter's field. The flag, ordered
recently by the Butler Council, was accepted at a preliminary ceremony by
Mayor Harry F. Pepper. Its colors, white and yellow, with a darker yellow on
the fringe and lettering in blue carries the city's official seal in the
center and this legend: "City of Butler, Chartered March 19, 1917"
The
flag was carried with the Butler High School band and is paraded between
halves at the football games.
Erik Bell, 10 May 2023
The seal used on the flag differs from the seal available from the county:
https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/media/logos/members/City-of-Butler-Logo.png
The text around the seal is very different. Horizontal lines don't appear to
be behind the keystone.
Masao Okazaki, 10 May 2023
image located by Paul Bassinson, 22 November 2019
Source:
https://www.visitbutlercounty.com
Paul Bassinson, 22 November
2019