Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum
An annual government report issued in 1907 by the Smithsonian's United States National Museum, printed in Washington for Congress and the public to record the museum's progress. The first picture is the Smithsonian Institution seal, a globe framed by a ring of lettering and crossed torches, and the second is a rotated photograph of the National Museum building with early automobiles parked along its front drive. A designer could take the seal's ring-of-text and globe-and-torch device as a model for institutional emblems, and the photograph's cropped, sideways street view for documentary layout.
