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The Iowa Banner was adopted on March 29, 1921. Iowa had
not adopted
a state banner and action was not taken until World War I, when Iowa
National
Guardsmen stationed along the Mexican border suggested a state
banner.The
banner was designed by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt, who, in 1911, was
the
Organizing Regent of the Mary Marion Chapter DAR in Knoxville. She was
elected the twelfth State Regent of the Iowa Society Daughters of the
American
Revolution in October 1915 and served through March 1918.
The colors chosen for the banner were red, white and blue, of
the French
Tri-Color banner, since Iowa was part of the Louisiana Purchase from
France.
The central panel of white is the background for the design taken from
the Great Seal of Iowa. The state motto " Our Liberties We Prize, and
Our
Rights We Will Maintain" is written on the streamer.
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