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![[Flag of Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, New York]](../images/u/us_u_rpi.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 February 2009
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From http://www.lib.rpi.edu/Archives/gallery/symbols/flag.html :
The school flag was redesigned in 1994 and incorporates many of the elements
in the elements in the Institute's original
coat of arms.
Francisco Santos, 5 March 2003
Just for the record, I have seen the flag of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
flying, and it really does have those strong black lines.
John Ayer, 7 March 2003
From http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/gallery/symbols/logos.html:
![[Flag of Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, New York]](../images/u/us_u_rp1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 February 2009
Some years after the Institute seal was created, Palmer Ricketts designed a
flag described as: "a rectangle divided by a diagonal into two triangles, one
cherry and one white, with the letters R. P. I. crossing the diagonal, the parts
of the letters on the white background being cherry and the parts on the cherry
background being white."
Ron Lahav, 1 February 2009
The description doesn't say which way the diagonal goes. This reconstruction
places the cherry arbitrarily at hoist.
Eugene Ipavec, 5 February 2009
![[Flag of Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, New York]](../images/u/us_u_rp2.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 February 2009
In later years, the official flag was white with a red Institute seal and red
fringe.
Ron Lahav, 1 February 2009