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Official seal of the United States Supreme Court – Historic Print

Official seal of the United States Supreme Court, [ca. 1950] — historic print
Official seal of the United States Supreme Court, [ca. 1950]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with Official seal of the United States Supreme Court, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Official seal of the United States Supreme Court

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The seal of the United States Supreme Court is a small, carefully composed emblem, and this color reproduction of a drawing preserves its official design in a form that looks crisp on the page. The Court's seal has long been used to authenticate its documents and mark its official business, so a printed version of it carries a certain institutional weight. The record dates the piece to about 1950, a period when the Court was working in the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol, with the building it would move into in 1935 still fairly recent. The record notes that its data comes from an unverified caption card, so the exact origin of the drawing remains uncertain.

Created / published[ca. 1950]
Medium1 print.
NotesColor repro. of drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Supreme Court; Seals.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,230 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157526

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