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Description A presidential coat of arms used on an invitation by President Hayes. There were a couple of other very similar versions used during his administration, which (through some intermediate versions) are the ancestor of the current design of the Seal of the President of the United States.
Date between 1877 and 1881
date QS:P, 1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319, 1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326, 1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Scanned from page 427 of The Eagle And The Shield, 1978, by Richard S. Patterson and Richardson Dougall. Taken from a blank invitation used during the Hayes administration, which embossed the arms in gold. The form is (or was in 1978) in the White House Documents file, Division of Political History, National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, negative no. 77-10304.
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