Seal and flag of the city of New York : authorized by the committee appointed by the mayor to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the installation of the first mayor and board of aldermen of the city of New York on June 24, 1665, and the adoption of the official city flag on June 24, 1915
A civic report by John B. Pine, issued in New York by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1915 for the committee marking the 250th anniversary of the city's first mayor and aldermen, documenting the history of New York's seal and the newly adopted city flag. The plates give repeated versions of the same heraldic device—eagle, windmill sails, flour barrels, beavers, a colonist and a Lenape figure flanking the shield, ringed by the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI and the date 1664—in line engraving, woodcut, and photographed relief, useful as ready-made roundel and emblem artwork.
