Great seal of West Virginia – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Great seal of West Virginia, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Great seal of West Virginia
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The woodcut shows the Great Seal of West Virginia, which was reproduced in Eaton S. Drone's 1876 book on the state and the city of Wheeling. The state was admitted in 1863 after western Virginia counties separated from the Confederacy during the Civil War, and the seal dates from that founding. Its Latin motto, *Montani Semper Liberi*, or "Mountaineers are always free," reflects the independent character of the hill country. Wheeling, the subject of Drone's book, was the new state's first capital.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Eaton S. Drone, West Virginia and Wheeling, 1876. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,416 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108262 |
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