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Navy League of the United States (U.S.)

image by Zachary Harden, 29 January 2025

Description
Earlier flag

See also:

Description of the flag

According to https://www.navyleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Navy-League-Official-Brand-Guide-2020-FINAL.pdf the seal and logos of the organization changed in 2020 to what is on this document. I could see the flag also changed to where it is this seal on a white background.
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Zachary Harden, 29 January 2025

Earlier flag

image by Joe McMillan, 2 January 2004

Seen on the famous black and white photograph (original in the National Archives, Washington) by one of five of Peary's companions holding staff-mounted flags on an ice hill--blocks piled up by a pressure ridge--at the pole. The flag, according to Peary's letter to Trenchard cited above, was provided by the ladies of the League. Since Annin & Co., the large New York flag company, is known to have provided flags for the Peary expedition, I have followed Annin's 1914 wholesale catalogue for the design of this flag: white with a yellow border and the Navy League emblem on the center--a blue disk with a yellow anchor surrounded by the white letters U, S, N, and L. However, I should note that the flag in the Peary black and white photos is a light shade of gray, and that the hand-colored version of the photograph that was prepared in 1910 for Peary's "The North Pole: Its Discovery" shows the flag as light blue with a yellow border and a copper-colored disk.
Joe McMillan, 2 January 2004