[Baker, Sarah S.] The Blue Flag. New York: American Tract Society, 1861

[Baker, Sarah S.]. The Blue Flag. New York: American Tract Society, 1861. [10740]

Blue pebble cloth with designs in blind, worn and faded, 6 x 4 inches, frontispiece engraving of a boy leaving home in a sailor's outfit, a man carrying a chest; two additional plates. 200 pages, most dark from foxing & smudges. Fair. Hardcover.

"The characters in the following story have been sketched in the hope of calling attention to the interests of our seamen, and of being useful to the sailors themselves."

The "blue flag" was hung out to show sailors where they might find Christian lodging. The story of Theodore Gould, a boy who went to sea; by the end of the story he is a captain. The transient class of seamen were looked upon with a mixture of dread and sympathy at this time in New York City, and ministries had begun to try to Christianize them.

Attributed to Sarah Schoonmaker Baker (1824-1906), b. New Haven, Conn.; d. Stockholm, Sweden. She was a prolific writer of children's stories.