[1] The state seal centered on the flag tells the history of Kansas and his figures representing pioneer life.

[3] During Bleeding Kansas, an unknown party made a 31-star U.S. flag with the letter "K" in the top right of the canton.

The winner was Esther Northrup of Lawrence, whose design consisted of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue, with a gold sunflower on a blue background in the canton, and the state seal in the center of the sunflower.

However, after the banner was rejected for display in Washington, D.C., and generated complaints for its awkward method of hanging, the state legislature adopted a state flag that saw the addition of the word "Kansas" at the bottom in 1961 but has otherwise retained its original design.

The organization's website features the banner – a lone sunflower on a blue field – and attributes it to Adjutant General Joe Nickell.