Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum
An annual government report from 1907 on the United States National Museum, issued by the Government Printing Office in Washington for Congress and the public. The single picture here is the Smithsonian Institution seal, a circular emblem with a globe and the motto 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men', dated 1846. A designer could take from it the classic roundel layout, with text set around a circle and a central globe.
