History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1894)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885 · Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 740
THE DEPARTMENT SEALS. Each of the departments of the United States government has itsofficial seal, about the size of the great seal of the United States, which,, _ .. is attached to all commissions and impor- tant documents emanating from the depart-ment to which it belongs. … Post-Office Department. — Under thenational government, Samuel Osgood, ofMassachusetts, was appointed the first Post-master-General, and the rude woodcut of apost-rider, which had been used by Frank-lin on his circulars, became the device onthe seal of the department, and it is retained to this day…
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