Origin and history of the American flag 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 (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 321
the emblem of freedom, between a spear and a musket; over this was a serpent. Beneath the trophies the date, mdcclxxviii. Around the seal were the words, Board of War and Ordnance, United States of America. This was the origin of the present seal of the War Department, which bears pre- Seai of the… … The Seal and Arms of the United States. 699 Treasury Department.—Congress ordered a seal to be preparedfor this department on the 36th of Sep-tember, 17<i8, at the same time that onewas directed for the Navy Department,and the device then adopted for thecontinental treasury seal has been…
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