MATERIAL: Cloth
DIMENSIONS: 820 x 1700 mm
COMPONENTS: Sack cloth banner made of old rice sack.
CONDITION: Some light wear to edges, a few tears along old folds.
LANGUAGE
English
ITEM ID: 4816
Philippine Celebratory Banner for the Japanese Surrender
DATE
Year: 1945
Decade: 1940s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
A sack-cloth banner, made from an old rice sack. One face with a central American Eagle its claws holding the Stars and Stripes and the National flag of the Philippines, titled below “Philippines 1945”.
An interesting Filipino banner, probably drawn up by the local population to hang over a shop or house, for the celebrations that took place, after the signing of the Japanese Surrender of the Philippines on September 2nd 1945.
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