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The Eagle and the Shield

A History of the Great Seal of the United States

by Richard S. Patterson and Richardson Dougall

The official history of the Great Seal, published by the U.S. Department of State for the bicentennial. It documents the three committees, the designs of du Simitière, Barton and Thomson, and the later history of the eye and pyramid on the reverse.

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