Discusses the development and evolution of the Great Seal of the United States along with derived seals such as the Seal of the President, Vice President, Department of State and Supreme Court through three congressional committees (1776, 1780, 1782) and then also the engraving of dies. Biographical sketches are given of some of the various people involved at different points in time.

Also covered is the use of the Great Seal in government documents such as treaties or patents and public displays of the Great Seal such as in paintings and currency.

A question and answer section at the end of the book addresses a variety of different topics including a number of myths and stories concerning the Great Seal.

Ninety-two illustrations are included within this text.

xliv, 637 pages

Scanning Process: The book was checked out in 2018 from Carlyle Campbell Library at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina and sent to a consumer book scanning service called Blue Leaf Book Scanning. The final output was downloaded and postprocessing was done in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC along with GIMP including the correction of publishing errors (pages out of order and duplicated pages) and the addition of bookmarks and links. The resulting PDF was then uploaded to Internet Archive. Thanks go out to family members for discussion and suggestions leading to the initiation and completion of the book scanning.