Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum
An annual government report of the United States National Museum, published in Washington by the Government Printing Office in 1907 for Congress and the public, documenting the museum's progress and condition. Its one picture is the Smithsonian seal: a circular roundel with a globe between two torches and a banner reading 'For the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men', with 'Smithsonian Institution Washington 1846' around the rim. A designer might take its strong radial lettering, the globe-and-torch emblem and the ring of dotted border as a model for a seal or institutional badge.
